1. A Long Sad History: Automatic Docking on Orbit Stephen Granade

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3. 1965: Gemini Tests Docking

4. Dec 1965: Gemini 6A and 7 Rendezvoused on Orbit BormanLovell SchirraStafford

5. March 1966: Gemini 8 the Whirligig

7. March 1969: Apollo 9

8. Oct 1968: Soyuz 3 and Soyuz 2 Beregovoi

9. Shuttle Docks with ISS

10. Watch Our Shuttles Dock Psst, show the two docking movies

11. Russian Progress Can Dock Automatically

12. April 1971: Soyuz 10 vs. Salyut 1 Rukavishnikov ShatalovYeliseyev

13. Salyut 3 vs. Soyuz 15 (Aug 1974) DeminSarafanov

14. Salyut 5 vs. Soyuz 21 (July 1976) and Soyuz 23 (Oct 1976) VolynovZholobov Rozhdestvensky Zudov

15. Salyut 6 vs. Soyuz 25 (Oct 1977) KovalyonokRyumin

16. Soyuzes That Tried to Dock Thru 1977 Soyuz 3/2Oct 1968Tried 3 times but failed. Soyuz 6/7/8Oct 19693 way failed b/c of electronics failure. Soyuz 10Apr 1971Tried to dock w/Salyut 1. Hard dock failed. Soyuz 11June 1971Successful dock w/Salyut 1. Crew died from depressurization during undock. Soyuz 14July 1974Docked w/Salyut 3. Soyuz 15Aug 1974Auto docking system failed. Soyuz 17Jan 1975Docked w/Salyut 4. Soyuz 18May 1975Docked w/Salyut 4. Soyuz 19July 1975Docked w/US Apollo spacecraft. Soyuz 20Nov 1975Unmanned; docked w/Salyut 4. Soyuz 21July 1976Igla failed. Docking mechanism jammed on undock. Soyuz 23Oct 1976Igla failed. Ran out of fuel before docking. Soyuz 24Feb 1977Docked w/Salyut 5. Soyuz 25Oct 1977Soft dock w/Salyut 6, but hard dock failed. Soyuz 26Dec 1977Docked w/Salyut 6.

17. Kvant 1 (Apr 1987)

18. Kvant 2 (Mar 1989)

19. ETS-VII

20. ETS-VII Slides Away Psst, show the ETS-VII movie

21. Demonstration of Autonomous Rendezvous Technology

22. Orbital Express

23. What Gives? You don’t get to prepare like you want – No zero-g room on Earth Our intuition doesn’t help – Orbital mechanics is screwy Doing stuff on orbit is hard – If you mess up badly enough, whoops! death. Practice helps – Look at Soyuz and at Shuttle dockings versus the satellites Docking is hard!