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Old 12th Sep 2016, 04:26
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Not only can stars be seen, but prior to the existence of the now ubiquitous radio/inertial/GPS navigation systems we all enjoy today, the stars were a primary means to navigate.

Some branches of the US military continued to use celestial navigation as a backup to INS and radio nav systems into the 1990s and the SR-71 Blackbird carried an electronic star sight that could update the aircraft's INS position.
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