"undocking" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to the process of a ship or spacecraft separating from a dock, pier, or other fixed structure. For example: "The space shuttle began its undocking procedure from the International Space Station."
Three and a half hours after undocking from the space station, the capsule landed more than 200 miles from where it was supposed to land on the steppes of Kazakhstan, instead touching down north of the Aral Sea near the border with Russia shortly after 8 a.m. local time.
After undocking this morning, the shuttle crew will spend a couple of days preparing for landing, including conducting another inspection of the shuttle's nose cone and the leading edge of the wings to make sure they did not suffer any damage from micrometeoroids while docked to the space station.
In preparation for Saturday's undocking, the crew donned their Sokol space suits, took their positions in the module and carried out final air leak and communication tests.After separation, video footage from the space station showed the distant Soyuz appearing to be heading for the moon.
The hatches between the Atlantis and the space station were closed yesterday evening in preparation for undocking today.
Anaesthetics might achieve this either by making the shape of a protein so stable that it cannot flex in response to docking and undocking molecules, or so unstable that the docking port loses its shape.
The flight plan calls for Discovery to undock from the station on March 5 and land at the Kennedy Space Center on March 7.
The statistics don't account for bikes that are undocked for maintenance or redistribution.
After four or five drinks, they undocked a pair of blue bikes and rode home over the Williamsburg Bridge.
The seven Discovery crew members — Captain Poindexter; Colonel Dutton; the flight engineer, Dottie M. Metcalf-Lindenburger; Stephanie D. Wilson Mr. Anderson Mr. Mastracchioio; and a Japanese astronaut, Naoko Yamazaki — are scheduled to undock from the space station on April 16 and land back at the Kennedy Space Center two days later.
The Dragon is to undock on Thursday and parachute into the Pacific Ocean off California.
If the station had been hit, the crew could have quickly undocked and returned to Earth.
