Sentence examples for docking mission from inspiring English sources

NASA pushed up the shuttle's docking mission so the crew could replace the four dead or dying batteries.

Selected as an astronaut in 1990, Collins became the first woman pilot of a U.S. space shuttle in February 1995, serving on the orbiter Discovery for a rendezvous and docking mission to the Russian space station Mir.

SHANGHAI — China sent a crew of three, including the country's first female astronaut, into space on Saturday to carry out its first manned docking mission, an important step in an ambitious plan to build a Chinese space station by 2020.

This is China's first manned space docking mission, Xinhua says.

"The success of the manual docking mission represents a major breakthrough.

The rendezvous and docking mission is usually divided into several phases, and the mission planning is performed phase by phase.

The China National Space Administration said it planned three docking missions with the lab next year.

Two more docking missions with Tiangong-1 model are planned next year, one of them manned.

A number of major milestones have been accomplished to date, including the construction of major elements of flight hardware, the development of operations and sustaining engineering centers, astronaut training, and eight Space Shuttle/Mir docking missions.

This was followed during the course of the project by a total of 9 Shuttle-Mir docking missions, from STS-71 to STS-91.

The mission, a dress rehearsal for the first docked mission in the program, STS-71, also carried out testing of various techniques and pieces of equipment that would be used during the docking missions that followed.