Apollo Docking sequence - Connecting the Command Module to the Lunar Module.

I made this video to hopefully help people understand the Apollo Docking System. I’ve read an unhealthy amount of documentation on the subject but I was frustrated that there weren’t any animations to show the sequence. The first thing I did was collect photos of the probe and docking ring. this was helped when I contacted John Fongheiser at space1 who supplied me with some drawings of the probe that they had built. Using Photogrammetry, I recreated all the elements in Solidworks, including the mechanical movement. I then used 3D Studio max to do the animations. I only had a month’s trial so didn’t have long. I can see mistakes now but can’t redo them, unfortunately. I decided to keep the majority of the spacecraft grey so as not to confuse what I was trying to highlight. I downloaded the fantastic scan of the command module from the Smithsonian at: :d8c6457e-4ebc-11ea-b77f-2e728ce88125