Space Parking
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The margin of error when docking at the ISS is mere inches & they’re moving at 17,500 mph.
“So the way you rendezvous with the space craft is you kind of get underneath it and sneak up on it,” says astronaut Mark Kelly. You’re moving through millions of miles of cubic space, traveling at 17,500 miles per hour and your margin of error is just inches.
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Space Parking
Clip: Episode 1 | 54sVideo has Closed Captions
“So the way you rendezvous with the space craft is you kind of get underneath it and sneak up on it,” says astronaut Mark Kelly. You’re moving through millions of miles of cubic space, traveling at 17,500 miles per hour and your margin of error is just inches.
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