The mechanical docking arms engaged, and a green light blinked as the personnel tubes pressurized.

The mechanical docking arms clanged rather more loudly than Mincio had expected, and the personnel tube ran out to the cutter's lock.

The central axis of the Space Station, with its docking arms extended, was now slowly swimming toward them.

The hazard lights atop each docking arm were cycling on and off too slowly.

They were temporarily tied to a docking arm and looked like small, vulnerable orphans waiting for another home.

They've just released all four of the docking arms.

We have structural problems in the docking arms and we've lost hull integrity in three places, all in cargo areas.

Then the Orn broke away from the docking arm and rose rapidly through the flight paths, pressing them all into their seats.

Each spike was, in actuality, a docking arm.

He held a graceful hand out toward the narrow end of the pylon, toward the main docking arm.