Ideas
Charting a Path Through the Stars
Strojnik discusses her work developing an autonomous system for optical navigation of air- and spacecraft.
A rendering of Cassini in Saturn’s orbit. [NASA / JPL]
In the United States in the 1970s, there was a national push to eradicate cancer and develop robotics by the end of the century. While President John F. Kennedy’s commitment to send humans to the moon was realized, scientists like myself were working hard on other objectives.
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