Skip to main content
Tweeted twitter.com/StackSpaceExp/status/1053390509144715265
edited tags
Link
Source Link

Who performs the docking procedure?

In the Apollo moon missions when the LEM returned to the CSM, which astronaut performed the docking procedure? Did the command module pilot just hold a fixed position while the astronaut flying the LEM performed the the docking or was it the other way around?

Also, I had heard that it was the mission commander that flew the LEM and the "Lunar Module Pilot" was just a title given to the second astronaut in the LEM. Is this true? I'm sure that both were capable of flying the mission but did the second astronaut ever get a chance to fly during the mission?