From: teeks99stuff@yahoo.com   
      
   Marc 182  wrote in   
   news:MPG.1c29528f4502c5bd989853@nnrp1.phx1.gblx.net:   
   > What if you don't dock?  Get close and station-keep, then spacewalk,   
   > tie a line, and haul the stuff across. Like resupplying a ship at sea.   
   > May even be safer than a manual docking (but not an autodocking).   
   >   
   > Marc   
      
      
   I think station keeping for a long period of time, close enough to the   
   station to transfer things would be MUCH more dangerous (and need tougher   
   approvals) than docking.  If you want to go to the station, you need to put   
   in the engineering to make it work right.   
      
   Tom   
      
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