atpollard
Well-Known Member
It didn’t need that precision. The Docking mechanism is REALLY CLEVER as a piece of engineering. As the ships get close, the shape of the leaves guide the two craft into alignment … then the parts latch together and pull the craft together. It was a FAR more clever Engineering solution than I would have ever come up with.How did a primitive onboard computer, do complex calculations with the NASA computers? How was it possible to have such a precise connection between the LM and the CM? So much so that the LM starting at zero launched from the moon's surface and then was able with exactitude, rendezvous with the CM? It had to be perfect because the CM would travel at 3,000 miles per hour. The connection had to be perfect, without missing even by a nanosecond. It wasn't possible in the late 60s or even the early 1970s. It's not at all credible.