TORU_docking_system.jpg

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Description TORU docking system.jpg	English: TORU docking system used to manually dock Progress freighters to ISS Cosmonaut Alexander Y. Kaleri, Expedition 8 flight engineer, practices docking procedures with the manual TORU rendezvous system in the Zvezda Service Module on the International Space Station (ISS) in preparation for the docking of the Progress 13 on January 31. With the manual TORU mode, Kaleri can perform necessary guidance functions from Zvezda via two hand controllers in the event of a failure of the “Kurs” automated rendezvous and docking (AR&D;) of the Progress. Kaleri represents Rosaviakosmos.
Date	Taken on 30 January 2004
Source	http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-8/html/iss008e14073.html
Author	NASA
Permission ( Reusing this file )	PD-USGov-NASA

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