1. In order to aid the assembly of the modular station, Mir is equipped with six docking ports. 2. A docking port on the station was freed for the Soyuz, when cosmonauts aboard Mir jettisoned a supply capsule. 3. A large crew module and a docking port would be supplied on the third flight and fitted atop the industrial air lock. 4. Cylinder-shaped with a stubby cone at each end, Unity earned its name from its half-dozen docking ports. 5. During the fall mission, a shuttle crew will deliver a new docking port to Mir to facilitate future visits. 6. Endeavor carried a docking port to connect with the control module, the first two major components of an international Earth orbiting space station. 7. Even the handheld portable computer has found a new home inside the car, via an infrared docking port in a prototype system. 8. First, something went wrong with the procedures to equalize the pressures between the Spektr module and the docking port, where the cosmonauts were preparing to go in. 9. Following the depressurization, the two men removed a hatch cover from one of four docking ports, exposing the chamber to the vacuum of space. 10. He said the best upgrade candidates were people who had expensive peripherals, like a docking port or a monitor that let the laptop work like a desktop PC. |