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Heath, for one, thinks docking would make fine TV: “I’ve seen a lot of dumber stuff…. We’ve got to be more exciting than lawn-mower races.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

Competitive boat docking is the hottest sport you’ve likely never heard of.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

If you can’t fit on the one waiting in the docking area when you deplane, you’re stuck lingering for ages—a half hour or more, in some cases—until the next one arrives.

From Slate Aug. 18, 2026

Orion will complete two separate rendezvous and docking sequences, one with each lander prototype.

From Science Daily Jul. 23, 2026

On the eighth day at sea, Lefty Stephanides, grandly, on one knee, in full view of six hundred and sixty-three steerage passengers, proposed to Desdemona Aristos while she sat on a docking cleat.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides




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