Celestial Navigation (CELNAV) is one skill that has not been formally taught to Navy officers, depending on one's commissioning source, for more than 15 years. Based on direction from the Chief of ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - The same techniques guided ancient Polynesians in the open Pacific and led Sir Ernest Shackleton to remote Antarctica, then oriented astronauts when the Apollo 12 was disabled by ...

This year, on campuses around the country, more than 1,200 midshipmen enrolled in the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps are learning the ancient and somewhat complicated art of navigating by the ...

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