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Contents 1 Apollo LM rendezvous with CM 2 Additional information 3 Plural trouble 4 Docking

[edit] Apollo LM rendezvous with CM

The article needs to discuss the rendezvous in lunar orbit of the returning lunar ascent module and the command module, which was a key element of the Apollo mission model. Or is that already covered by an article to which this one could be linked? Sdsds 05:43, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Ah found it. Lunar orbit rendezvous. Now: how to work it into this article? Sdsds 05:45, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Perhaps you can make a section on Major rendezvous operations, list them, and include (link to) the one above. s1 18:36, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Y Done (Sdsds - Talk) 06:11, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Additional information

I suggest that the article requires a summary of the specific actions required to achieve a rendezvous. I recall that it basically consists of - (1) the second craft attains a cicular orbit of the same altitute as the first craft (2) whichever craft is behind (ie. chasing) then catches up by dropping to a slightly lower orbit, thereby having a slightly higher obital velocity (3) final manoevering to bring the 2 craft into contact. I will look for a relevant article on the NASA site. Logicman1966 23:41, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

The math is not trivial. As a reference may I suggest chapter 2 of Automated Rendezvous and Docking of Spacecraft by Wigbert Fehse? Stunningly, most of this is available online at Google Books. (sdsds - talk) 04:48, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

Oh: it would also be great to discuss approaches made on the v-bar vs. those made on the r-bar. SpaceFlightNow had some coverage of this. (sdsds - talk) 04:54, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Plural trouble

I am concerned that in several places in the article, including at least one section heading, "rendezvous" is used as the plural of "rendezvous". To be (perhaps pedantically) correct, this should probably be spelled "redezvouses" or some such. Should the occurances in the article all be changed? (sdsds - talk) 00:06, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Docking

It would be great to have some more information/article(s) on docking and docking devices such as docking rings. Suprisingly any relevant information on these seems to be very rare. Jiri Svoboda 17:52, 4 November 2007 (UTC)