PORTSMOUTH – The Boatshop at Strawbery Banke is offering a concise two-day course in the theory and practice of basic celestial navigation on June 10 and 11. “Navigating by the Stars” will be taught ...

AT SEA - It is 4 a.m., a Logistics Support Vessel is out in the ocean and suddenly a flash thunderstorm erupts. The boat's navigation system has just shut down. What happened' There are still two ...

No audio available for this content. Imagine life without GPS. For those of us old enough, that might not be hard to do. For younger people, it’s almost unimaginable. Now imagine that GPS — for ...

Reporting ANNAPOLIS, Md. — The same techniques guided ancient Polynesians in the open Pacific and oriented astronauts when Apollo 12 was disabled by lightning — the techniques of celestial navigation.

Twenty-five years ago, in 1995, the U.S. Air Force reached a milestone: Its satellite Global Positioning System became fully operational. Today, GPS directs our world, from supertankers to pizza ...