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Re: Sextant to go to Mars
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2016 Sep 18, 00:24 -0700
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2016 Sep 18, 00:24 -0700
They demonstated the use of a marine sextant on a sailboat and talked about the history of sextant navigation. He then showed his plotting of two sights, read out the latitude and longitude and compared it with his GPS and he said it was within 500 meters. Good work!
