In 1990, he pioneered the first-ever patient navigation program, training people from the community to listen and answer questions after a diagnosis.

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Second, GPS and turn-by-turn direction programs both benefit from the ability to access GPS content while another app is running such as a navigation program.

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Likewise, the radio tuner and navigation systems were easy to program and adjust en route.

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Technologies being tested in the program include advanced guidance, navigation and control, thermal protection systems, avionics, high temperature structures and seals, conformal reusable insulation, lightweight electromechanical flight systems, and autonomous orbital flight, reentry and landing.

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Its civilian space program has already brought China economic benefits in the fields of communications, navigation systems and resource exploration.

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The Army Corps of Engineers is working to ensure that the drought doesn't impede navigation of the nation's rivers, and the Small Business Administration is conducting a major outreach program so that farmers, ranchers, and other businesses affected by the drought know about the emergency resources available to them.

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In fact, most of the value-added uses for space today (GPS navigation, communications, direct broadcast TV and Radio, weather, photography and mapping) owe little to the Apollo program.

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