Are these nerds able to read a NAVMAP?
“”The Air Force might be able to handle near earth, but if you’re talking deep space, the only institution is the Navy,” he says.”
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I wonder how much of that statement is due to Clementine? The US Navy is the only overtly military department to have mapped in detail (Hi-Res) a non-Earthly body - the Clementine moon mission in 1994; much of the product remains classified to this day.
bfl