{"id":609,"date":"2013-05-23T17:16:42","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T21:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aplusphysics.com\/flux\/?p=609"},"modified":"2013-05-23T17:16:42","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T21:16:42","slug":"kerbal-docking-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aplusphysics.com\/flux\/aplusphysics\/kerbal-docking-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerbal Docking Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now, this took some research, some planning, and a number of tries, but matching up orbits for docking IS possible&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"docking1.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/aplusphysics.com\/flux\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/docking11.jpg\" alt=\"Docking1\" width=\"600\" height=\"456\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But certainly not easy. \u00a0Took a bit of practice (and perhaps a minor bounce off the station\u2026)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"docking2.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/aplusphysics.com\/flux\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/docking2.jpg\" alt=\"Docking2\" width=\"600\" height=\"340\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But in the end, the Kerbals prevailed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"docked1.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/aplusphysics.com\/flux\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/docked1.jpg\" alt=\"Docked1\" width=\"600\" height=\"293\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once docked, a fuel transfer was initiated to verify the process. \u00a0After that, it was party time. \u00a0The Kerbal who&#8217;d been manning the space station decided he needed to get out after going a bit stir crazy. \u00a0Time to ride the rocket for a spell.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"dockedrider.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/aplusphysics.com\/flux\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/dockedrider.jpg\" alt=\"Dockedrider\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This, of course, left the space station unmanned, so one of our newly arrived Kerbonauts transferred himself over to the space station to take the helm.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"crewtransfer.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/aplusphysics.com\/flux\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/crewtransfer.jpg\" alt=\"Crewtransfer\" width=\"600\" height=\"379\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So, it&#8217;s doable. \u00a0Who&#8217;s next?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, this took some research, some planning, and a number of tries, but matching up orbits for docking IS possible&#8230; But certainly not easy. \u00a0Took a bit of practice (and perhaps a minor bounce off the station\u2026) But in the <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/aplusphysics.com\/flux\/aplusphysics\/kerbal-docking-mission\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Kerbal Docking Mission<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[329,322],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aplusphysics","tag-docking","tag-ksp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aplusphysics.com\/flux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aplusphysics.com\/flux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aplusphysics.com\/flux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aplusphysics.com\/flux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aplusphysics.com\/flux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aplusphysics.com\/flux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aplusphysics.com\/flux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aplusphysics.com\/flux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aplusphysics.com\/flux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}