Adrigaar

Ah thank you, i tried this before using the set of four clamp-o-tron's and always wound up having them disconnect from both parts and float out into space but when i tried it with the Clamp-o-tron Sr. it worked perfectly. I'm guessing after i decoupled one of the four previously it was twisting and shearing off the others.

I am trying to get my first space station into LKO, i went with a modular approach and made my first module one full of batteries and solar panels. it had basically just a pod, RCS tank+thrusters, a load of batteries, lots of solar panels then a quad-coupler and 4 docking ports, connected immediately to 4 more docking ports another quadcoupler taking it back into my launching rocket. in my head this would work perfectly, get it into LKO, then undock and back my rocket away and fly it back off to crash into an ocean out of the way. My problem is that i couldnt undock. When i right clicked the docking clamps i had "decouple node" and "control from here". So my question is what am i doing wrong? is there a different way to build the rocket so that i can deliver space station modules to LKO, even if the module has to have docking ports on both ends as it is going to connect two parts in a straight line?