The crew of Soyuz 10, the first spacecraft sent to Salyut 1, was unable to enter the station because of a docking mechanism problem. The Soyuz 11 crew lived aboard Salyut I for three weeks ...

As the name suggests, space docking is essentially a process by which two fast-moving spacecraft are put into the same orbit, progressively brought closer, and finally joined together. It is an ...

the International Berthing and Docking Mechanism for the lunar Gateway; the Hera mission to study the Didymos binary asteroid system; and the Proba-3 mission, the first precision formation flying ...

India became the fourth country in the world after the United States, Russia, and China to have the space docking capability ...