# SPACE NAVIGATION

Department of Defense PIN 27982 SPACE NAVIGATION SHOWS TECHNIQUES AND EQUIPMENT USED IN LUNAR MISSIONS. SUMMARIZES ACCURACY ACHIEVED IN INTERPLANETARY TRAJECTORY. CITES METHODS USED IN TARGET POSITIONING, PRECISE WAYS OF DETERMINING TARGET COURSE, AND 20TH CENTURY TOOLS IN MEASURING. DEMONSTRATES BASE TRACKING TECHNIQUES AND NEW OPTICAL TECHNIQUES IN MEASURING VELOCITIES. EXPLAINS HOW TO DETERMINE CURRENT POSITION AND CORRECT COURSE. STRESSES IMPORTANCE OF GATHERING EXPERIENCE FOR MORE COMPLEX MISSIONS.

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1968
- By: Department of Defense
- Genres: Education, Space
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/gov.dod.dimoc.27982)
- Licence or status: [CC0 1.0](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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