Rendezvous and Docking Info From The Guys Who Do It For Real...

[NeoMorph]

Baen books have some great real stuff to go with their kickass SciFi library... So colour me impressed when I get my Baen books update and there is this link to "Rendezvous and Docking:

A User’s Guide for Non Rocket Scientists (Part 1)".

Here is the link...

http://www.baen.com/rendezvous.asp

If I had read this BEFORE I played KSP I would have been lost... but as someone who plays KSP daily I found that I actually understood what the guy was talking about. Yup, KSP is a legitimate learning tool.

[CaptainKipard]

tldr, but thanks for sharing nonetheless.

[Amaroq]

Fun read! Thoroughly enjoyed it, and yeah, before playing KSP it would've lost me very early on .. or at least, I wouldn't have appreciated the difficulties implied by the words (or gotten the jokes in the anecdotes!)

[astropapi1]

Commenting for reading when not on mobile.

[goldenpeach]

I wouldn't had understood neither.

Or maybe a little if I tried hard but my interest in rocket were not high enough to convince me of doing such an effort.

Of course, after playing KSP it's different: I understand everything(yet) and I have the motivation to search when I don't understand something related to space or rocket!

[deadshot462]

Very interesting read. Skimmed through it for now but will read it again with more time later.

[Galane]

Chapter 5 here is part 1, chapter 6 is part 2.

http://www.baenebooks.com/10.1125/Baen/9781625792785/9781625792785.htm?blurb

[heng]

Cool read!!! thanks.

Check the ESA videos on this topic, too:

(11min) Ascent

(20min) Docking

(20min) Undocking/Return