Space exploration required new navigation solutions. These included tracking techniques with radio signals and celestial techniques using instruments such as the Apollo sextant located in the Time and Navigation gallery. Join Andrew K. Johnston from the Adler Planetarium and learn how astronauts navigated to the Moon using some of the same principles long used by mariners at sea.
Meet at the Welcome Center in the Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall on the first floor.
About the Ask an Expert lecture series: Every Wednesday at noon in at the Museum in Washington, DC, a staff member talks to the public about the history, collection, or personalities related to a specific artifact or exhibition in the Museum.