Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Soviet Docking (Best Copy) Message-ID: <1990Dec31.235136.2546@zoo.toronto.edu> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <7743@eos.arc.nasa.gov> Date: Mon, 31 Dec 90 23:51:36 GMT In article <7743@eos.arc.nasa.gov> brody@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Adam R. Brody) writes: >The Soviets and the Americans both advocate manual >back-up for automatic docking maneuvers... Actually, not right: the US uses manual docking, period, and has never developed an automatic docking system. -- "The average pointer, statistically, |Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology points somewhere in X." -Hugh Redelmeier| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry