0053-Compass Rose Mystery Cache
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This puzzle final is a roadside geocached near the Campbellford Trans Canada Trail from Hastings to Campbellford. All the puzzles are easy as are most of the hides. Enjoy!
The following paragraph is about navigation to the moon in 1969. Find the final coordinates hidden in the paragraph below.N 44° 18.599' W 77° 52.457'
For the Apollo space missions, engineers at the MIT Instrumentation Lab (now the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory) developed the Primary Guidance, Navigation, and Control System (PGNCS), which consisted of a computer, software, inertial measurement unit (IMU), and optical instruments. The crew used an optical sextant and telescope to measure the angles between stars and the Earth or Moon horizons; the computer would calculate those angles and provide the necessary navigation information. For its time, the Apollo guidance computer was state-of-the art. (Today, your hand-held device is capable of much, much more.)
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