Definition of "astronavigation" [astronavigation]

• See celestial navigation. (noun)

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• "[12] The original reference to experience from which the meaning of the term astronavigation should be derived is not essentially "space-travel," but forms of transoceanic navigation which take into account the effects specific to changes in specific astronomical experiences, from fixed to variable, which are relevant to transoceanic navigation within what had appeared, initially, as a permanently fixed set of changes within the ordering of the planets or specifically stellar phenomena."
• "Because they can teach you astronavigation, but they can't give you a rocket."
• "Some candidates are interviewed for the job of astronavigation, and it turns out that one of them is a geocentrist."