What's all the buzz about docking?

[lajoswinkler]

Docking is not hard. Rendezvous is, if you're new to KSP.

When you dock, you use the chase mode, align the camera to look forward and then, using RCS, you gradually come near and dock. But rendezvous... that's tricky when you're new to these things.

[RW-1]

I find it easy to launch and get my initial apogee at my targets height and burn so that initial perigeee turns into a higher apogee, what I essentially get is my orbit with perigeee at the target's orbit, then can either let orbital mechanics work for me adjusting prograde or retro to get within 10k (more than not under 2K, switch to target, match, and begin closing...

I havent yet tried warping to get my target just west of the launch center to try an abbreviated launch to intercept, but will sometime soon.

[Othuyeg]

My biggest docking was between these two parts:

Took me a while, but i got there eventually.

[fenderzilla]

it really depends on the ship. some are easy, some are hard. that's just the way it is.