Re: LSAM and an unmanned CEV in lunar orbit?


"Pat Flannery" <flanner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:11fn5pap8sh4k85@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

> 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.



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