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WTF Fun Fact – NASA Sextant And Slide Rule

February 16, 2020 by WTF

On NASA’s Gemini XII flight, the computer docking system failed and Buzz Aldrin (who did his doctoral thesis at MIT on line-of-sight orbital mechanics) successfully calculated the docking trajectory using a sextant and a slide rule. – WTF Fun Facts

Source:
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/gemini-xii-crew-masters-the-challenges-of-spacewalks

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