"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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Well, you did get the advantage that either the Apollo or the LM could
do the docking procedure if one suffered some sort of RCS problem. It
will be interesting to see if they go with manual or automatic docking
on this design. Knowing NASA, it will be manual- which pretty well
botches using the CEV as a unmanned cargo craft the way Soyuz got turned
into Progress.


It'll likely have both automatic and manual docking modes. It's also quite
possible that the docking procedure can be partly or fully teleoperated from
Earth.