When the astronauts came to campus: Morehead Planetarium's life-saving history

Posted Oct 5, 2016
From 1960 to 1975, 62 NASA astronauts studied celestial navigation at UNC’s Morehead Planetarium and Science Center. The training ensured that the astronauts would know what to do in case their automatic navigation systems failed while they were in space. The training saved lives on three occasions — the Mercury Atlas 9 mission, Apollo 12 and Apollo 13. (Daily Tar Heel)

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