Now clearly illuminated, the interior of the obelisk revealed a docking chamber, slightly more than one hundred meters across.
He shut down the shuttle's engines and used maneuvering thrusters to come to a relative stop in the center of the docking chamber.
THIRTY Kirk took his first step from the hatch ramp onto the surface of the docking chamber.
He stepped into it and was in the docking chamber at once.
Jess jerked a thumb back toward the docking chamber.
The small conical craft lifted a foot from the floor, spun ninety degrees, and the blast of a fusion motor filled the docking chamber with white fire.
They were beamed out first, and then the ship was destroyed and the docking chamber sterilized.
The key to Operation Gossamer now floated in one of the station's medium-sized docking chambers, awaiting the final check-out before launch.
He got a double view, over- head from the docking chamber where the tug rested in its cradle and frSm the Chicle itself.
Dnivtopun bellowed, kicking out at the silvery-furred form that lay across the entrance-lock to the docking chamber.