Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: docking
Message-ID: <1990Dec28.080023.29478@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <7698@eos.arc.nasa.gov>
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 90 08:00:23 GMT

In article <7698@eos.arc.nasa.gov> brody@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Adam R. Brody) writes:
>Did the crew in the ascent module control the docking after ascent from the
>moon or was the command module the active vehicle both for this docking and
>the transposition docking?

As I recall, the command module was normally the active vehicle -- the CM
pilot had a better view, if nothing else.  There were various contingency
procedures, but I believe it was not possible to dock with a completely
uncooperative command module.
-- 
"The average pointer, statistically,    |Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
points somewhere in X." -Hugh Redelmeier| henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry