A sextant used in the rescue of Titanic survivors will be sold at auction in the U.K. later this month. The sextant belonged to Sir Arthur Rostron, captain of the rescue ship Carpathia, who was one of ...

The Apollo program utilized a sextant, a centuries-old navigational instrument, as a backup guidance and navigation system in the Command Module, independent of the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) and ...

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A sextant is the antique version of a GPS. And in his basement workshop, Ridge White is one of the few people in the world still servicing and repairing the instruments. “Sarah,” a replica of an ...

He became a national hero when his ship rescued hundreds of survivors from the stricken liner Titanic. Now the sextant Sir Arthur Rostron used to set a course to the site of the disaster is to go ...

ONE of the navigational instruments that helped guide the legendary British explorer Captain James Cook on the journey which led to his death has sold for more than £34,000. The sextant belonged to ...

Quartermaster 3rd Class Craig Warner uses a navigational instrument on the USS Rushmore in the Pacific Ocean on Nov. 26, 2015. (Petty Officer 3rd Class Chelsea Milburn/U.S. Navy) The Feb. 18 Economy & ...

Kansas is to the ocean as celestial navigation is to the 21st century – seemingly unrelated to one another. But all those things might come together because of a Wichita company. The U.S. Navy ...