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unusual facts about Docking


Bobbing

Docking, the practice of removing a portion of an animal's ears or tail.


1996–97 Middlesbrough F.C. season

The club's officials insisted that manager Bryan Robson had been unable to field a team due to a severe injury and illness crisis among his players, but this did not prevent the Football Association from docking the club 3 points.

2007 in Antigua and Barbuda

January 3: Fourteen-year-old Michael Perham becomes the youngest person to ever sail single-handedly across the Atlantic Ocean, when he completes a six-week voyage from Gibraltar by docking in Antigua.

70000 Tons of Metal

It first took place between January 24 and January 28 of 2011, departing from Miami, docking at Cozumel and returning to Miami.

AbsInt

In April 2008, Astrée was able to prove the absence of any runtime error in a C version of the automatic docking software of the Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) used for transporting payloads to the International Space Station.

Advanced Gemini

The Lunar proposals ranged from reusing the docking systems developed for the Agena target vehicle on more powerful upper stages such as the Centaur, which could propel the spacecraft to the Moon, to complete modifications of the Gemini to enable it to land on the Lunar surface.

Air launch

The Convair B-36 was used to air launch several prototype fighters for defense, but none offered performance that could match ground-launched fighters — even the largest bomber ever mass-produced was too small a mothership for the jet age — and docking presented its own problems.

Anatoli Blagonravov

This led to an agreement signed on May 24, 1972 by US President Richard M. Nixon and Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin, calling for such a joint manned space mission, and declaring intent for all future international manned spacecraft to be capable of docking with each other.

Brezhnev assassination attempt

The spaceflight crewmembers—Vladimir Shatalov, Boris Volynov, Yevgeny Khrunov, and Aleksei Yeliseyev—had returned only a week earlier from their historic manned-ship-to-manned-ship docking mission in space, the first of its kind.

C-class ferry

At one time these ferries operated on the Swartz Bay-Tsawwassen route, but due to limitations placed on their speed when transiting Active Pass—after an accident they were required to operate in the more maneuverable docking mode rather than cruising mode—it is no longer feasible to run them on that route.

Chelsea Piers

Under contracts let by the New York City Department of Dock and Ferries, the Chelsea Section Improvement, as it was officially called, replaced a hodgepodge of run-down waterfront structures with a row of grand buildings embellished with pink granite facades and formed the docking points for the rival Cunard Line and White Star Line.

Cy A. Adler

In early December, 1982, Adler placed an ad in the Voice announcing a public walk along the Hudson River from Battery Park to Riverside Park, which at the time consisted largely of docking facilities abandoned due to Containerization.

Epimorphin

When the N terminus is on the cytosolic face it acts as a t-SNARE involved in intracellular vesicle docking and is called Syntaxin-2.

Georgi Ivanov

Though take-off was smooth, the mission was a disaster, with severe damage of the engine preventing docking in orbit to Salyut 6 orbital station as it was initially planned.

Grand Trunk Pacific Railway

The acquisition by CN of the former Illinois Central and Elgin, Joliet and Eastern railroads will enable cargo to bypass the congested railway switching system in Chicago proper and reach Memphis and New Orleans within 96 hours of a ship docking at Prince Rupert.

Help Fight Childhood Cancer

Treating it as a problem in ligand docking, a computer program called AutoDock will virtually attempt to fit each molecule to each protein in such a way that the protein is disabled.

Henry Walpole

He was born at Docking, Norfolk, in 1558, the eldest son of Christopher Walpole, by Margery, heiress of Richard Beckham of Narford, and was educated at Norwich School, Peterhouse, Cambridge, and Gray's Inn.

HMCS York

Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat (RHIB) are deployed at the base, but the docking facilities to the south of HMCS York belong to the National Yacht Club of Toronto for private vessels.

Isle Royale National Park

Windigo, at the southwest end of the island (docking site for the ferries from Minnesota), with a campstore, showers, campsites, and a boat dock.

John Lowther du Plat Taylor

He resigned his position with the General Post Office in 1870 to take up a new appointment as the Secretary and General Manager of the East and West India Docks Company (E&WIDC), at the time the largest docking operation in the world.

Katchalski-Katzir algorithm

The Katchalski-Katzir algorithm is an algorithm for docking of rigid molecules, developed by Ephraim Katchalski/Katzir.

Man in Space Soonest

:Flew on Gemini 8 and Apollo 11 missions; performed the first docking of two spacecraft, was the first -- along with Buzz Aldrin -- to land on the Moon, and was the first person to set foot on the Moon

Moses Mescheloff

Denied entry into Havana, Cuba, the ship sought sanctuary in the United States by docking in Miami.

Nanisivik Airport

On August 10, 2007, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced construction of a new docking and refueling facility in Nanisivik for the Canadian Forces, in an effort to maintain a Canadian presence in Arctic waters during the navigable season (June–October).

New York Port of Embarkation

Using seized docking facilities of German passenger and freight steamship lines on the Hudson River, the U.S. Army began moving troops and material to France to fight in the war.

Salyut 7

All Soviet and Russian space stations were equipped with automatic rendezvous and docking systems, from the first space station Salyut 1 using the IGLA system, to the Russian Orbital Segment of the International Space Station using the Kurs system.

Samuel Revans

Revans arrived in New Zealand on the ship Adelaide on 7 March 1840, docking at Wellington Harbour's Port Nicholson.

SeaStreak

On January 9, 2013, at around 8:45 a.m., Seastreak Wall Street, arriving at Pier 11 from Atlantic Highlands, rammed into the mooring as it was docking, leaving a visible gash in the ferry stretching several feet above the water line.

Soyuz TMA-8

Flight Engineer Marcos Pontes joined the TMA-8 crew for the ascent and docking with ISS, spent approximately seven days aboard the ISS conducting experiments, then returned to Earth with the outgoing members of Expedition 12 aboard Soyuz TMA-7.

SpaceX CRS-2

Dragon was grappled with Canadarm2 by NASA Expedition 34 Commander Kevin Ford and NASA Flight Engineer Tom Marshburn at 10:31 UTC (5:31 AM EST) on March 3, and was berthed to the nadir (Earth-facing) docking port of the Harmony module at 13:56 UTC (8:56 AM EST).

STS-97

Mission Specialists Joseph Tanner and Carlos Noriega moved through Endeavours docking tunnel and opened the hatch to the ISS docking port to leave supplies and computer hardware on the doorstep of the Station.

Tahsis, British Columbia

The inlet is protected from Pacific storms by its geography, making the docking facilities a valuable asset.

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

In fact she was heading for Detroit, there to discharge her cargo of taconite iron ore pellets before docking in Cleveland for the winter.

Tranmere

:*Tranmere Oil Terminal, docking facility on River Mersey with pipeline to Stanlow oil refinery

Wendy B. Lawrence

Highlights included the exchange of U.S. crew members Mike Foale and David Wolf, a spacewalk by Scott Parazynski and Vladimir Titov to retrieve four experiments first deployed on Mir during the STS-76 docking mission, the transfer to Mir of 10,400 pounds of science and logistics, and the return of experiment hardware and results to Earth.

Wigbert Fehse

There, he and his teams at ESA and in industry developed basic techniques and technologies for automated rendezvous and docking of spacecraft, which are being applied in international space projects, such as the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), the first West-European spacecraft that docked automatically to the International Space Station (ISS) in April 2008.


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