Rusty wrote:

Military Man in Space: A History of Air Force Efforts to Find a Manned
Space Mission

http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTR...c=GetTRDoc.pdf

On page 49 of the above appears the following:

"The mission differences between MOL and STS [Space Transportation
System, i.e., the Shuttle] were minor. MOL would have repaired
satellites in orbit, the STS could repair in orbit or retrieve and
return the satellite to earth for repair before returning them to orbit
again."

Leaving the tortured grammar of this excerpt, since when did MOL have
any capability to repair satellites? How would it have affected
rendezvous?