Sentence examples for spacecraft dock from inspiring English sources

One NASA plan was to have an Apollo spacecraft dock with a spent rocket stage, whereupon its crew would pressurize the rocket's empty hydrogen-propellant tank with air and install scientific equipment that would turn it into a laboratory for several weeks of occupancy.

A second method would have seen the spacecraft dock in the same way, but after docking, the spacecraft would be swung round and attached to the side of the space station.

On Sept. 20, 2006, the spacecraft docked to the International Space Station, where Ansari spent eight days.

The space station has a Russian Soyuz spacecraft docked to it that can transport crew members back to Earth.

The unmanned Shenzhou 8 spacecraft docked with it on November 3. Shenzhou 9 and 10 with two- or three-man crews were scheduled for docking in 2012.

It will provide astronauts with a view of the space station's exterior robotic arm and of visiting spacecraft docking with the space station.

To return to the space example, it's as if the Gemini programme had concluded that many more years of work was needed before spacecraft docking became a realistic proposition.

In July 1975, both countries celebrated the first joint space flight, as Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft docked in orbit, astronauts and cosmonauts smiling for the cameras as they shook hands through the air lock.

The movie made the opening bars of a relatively obscure piece by Richard Strauss – Also Sprach Zarathustra – into one of the most recognisable moments in classical music, and the improbable choice of Johann Strauss's Blue Danube waltz makes a sequence of two spacecraft docking seem touchingly balletic.

Unlike the previous milestone the UN declined to identify baby seven billion, but that did not stop several candidates from claiming the mantle, including a baby girl in Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state.Two Chinese spacecraft docked in orbit for the first time, when an unmanned craft was attached to the Tiangong-1 space laboratory.

Compared to traditional docking systems, spacecraft docking with inter-satellite electromagnetic mechanism has distinct advantages.