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The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker
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Before GPS, how did aircraft navigate? One important technique was celestial navigation: navigating from the positions of the stars, planets...
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The rise and fall of IBM's 4 Pi aerospace computers: an illustrated history
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The morning of April 12, 1981, 20 years to the day after Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space, the Space Shuttle thundered into the...
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