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Over the course of a decade, the Apollo program (in addition to landing humans on the Moon six times!) produced an incredible array of technical breakthroughs and achievements. But many people do not ...

There's nothing mystical or complicated about a sextant. All it is is a device that measures the angle between two objects. The sextant makes use of two mirrors. With this sextant, one of the mirrors ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. A box (or pocket) sextant works like ...

What it's used for: Navigating the high seas after all the other equipment breaks Claiming to have the world's best sextant doesn't sound like much of a boast — it's like bragging about a late-model ...

A sextant is the antique version of a GPS. And in his basement workshop, Ridge White is one of the few people in the world still servicing and repairing the instruments. “Sarah,” a replica of an ...

A sextant is an historic piece of navigational equipment with a name that teenagers enjoy pronouncing. It also happens to be the name of longtime product from the Swiss watch brand Juvenia. I actually ...