Meanings
- informaluncountableastronavigation
“Astronav? Are you serious? He can barely find his way through the normal physical universe, much less chart a path through warp space. Put him at conn, and you will crash while still in dry dock.”
1993, Peter David, Worf's First Adventure2 more examples
The story of its development through past ages to the present epoch, when the perfected methods of astronav are being cast aside for more accurate electronic methods of navigation, is a story that surely can never fail to excite the student of the history of science.
1968, Charles H. Cotter, A History of Nautical Astronomy, page 31While on a double date in the Galactica's astronav post, a “celestial chamber” used by spacefarers in the ancient days of cosmic flight, Apollo, Sheba, Starbuck and Cassiopeia detect a signal on an unused gamma frequency.
2005, John Kenneth Muir, An Analytical Guide to Television's Battlestar Galactica, page 114
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