Doug Firebaugh, author.
Image: Rendezvous Docking Simulator, NASA
Reliability Quote of the Day
ISSN 2329-0099
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Multiple exposure of Rendezvous Docking Simulator. The Gemini spacecraft was supported in a gimbal system by an overhead crane and gantry arrangement which provided 6 degrees of freedom – roll, pitch, yaw, and translation in any direction – all controllable by the astronaut in the spacecraft. The controls fed into a computer which in turn provided an input to the servos driving the spacecraft so that it responded to control motions in a manner which accurately simulated the Gemini spacecraft.