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Mark Adler
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Optical navigation would be more than sufficient. Images of the Moon and the Earth against key stars, a clock, and a computer is all you need. Apollo had such a system as a backup, which was used to verify the ground tracking results.

This is the Apollo sextant:

Apollo sextant

Mark Adler
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