Docking two 60t vessels without RCS - done

[M4ck]

I don't know if this is the correct forum to post this, but I'd like to share my newest KSP achievement with someone else here.

I am now in a process of assembling an interplanetary armada for establishing an Eve oceanic+land base. I have already assembled a tug + crew capsule + core with 12 smaller probes ship, now I was going to dock another tug to an orbital processing facility to be taken to Eve's orbit and filled by sending something else on mining trips to Gilly. The station was already in LKO, an interplanetary transfer stage was sent to meet it. After getting to around 80m from the target and making the ships relatively stationary, I've decoupled the liter stage, rotated the crafts to face each other and discovered something awful... None of them had any RCS! What to do about that... I could've sent something to dock in between them and to connect them to each other, but that would take some time and make the construction weaker(both stages were almost exactly 60t, so the smaller stage between them could even get crushed during the burn). I have decided to try docking them anyways, using short pulses from the tug's engines.

It worked The resulting vessel was 129t heavy and ready to go to Eve.

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Can I consider myself a docking expert now? Or at least an apprentice, or whatever the rank would be in some RPGs...

[OtherDalfite]

Now do it with Docking Port Jrs.

[M4ck]

Ouch. That could be awful... I'll give it a try later, if you don't mind

[Trebuchet-Launch]

A few days ago I added a new science module to my LKO space station. As I was making final approach I realized I had a problem: it only had one docking port, and no engine/RCS on the module itself. The station only had RCS.

I gently lobbed the module at the station and caught it on a docking port. That is expert docking. Docking two large modules on engines alone is pretty good practice for that, though.