On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 20:55:28 +0100, in a place far, far away, Darren J
Longhorn made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such
a way as to indicate that:

On 26 Sep 2005 11:13:57 -0700, "Alex Terrell"
wrote:

It would be nice to put a space station into a Highly elliptical Earth
orbit. Then a CEV could launch form Earth and dock with the station at
perigee. Its apogee would pass near the moon. A lunar tug (fueled on
the surface of the moon) would rendezvous, bringing a returning CEV and
leaving with the CEV.

Very probably a dumb question, but could you dock with such a station
without being in the same highly elliptical orbit?

Yes, but it would be a very hard dock...