You know, there could be something to this. My problem with docking the way the Orion docked to Station V is that for a station like that, only being able to dock one (maybe two, if there's a dock on the far side) craft could be a problem... maybe not for something as 'small' as Station V, but certainly if we ever build something like a Stanford Torus.<br /><br />The traditional solution is a counterrotating hub, but then you have to deal with having rotating sections of your pressurized space, which means funky seals... well, instead, make what amounts to a railway track on the inner edge of the wheel. On this track you put a sled. When you're expecting a shuttle, you run the sled opposite the station's rotation so as far as the shuttle is concerned, the sled is stationary. The shuttle gently parks itself on the sled in microgravity. Once the shuttle is clamped or tied down, the sled puts on the brakes, which will start it rotating along with the station, and the shuttle will then experience the station's artificial gravity. The sled can travel over to an airlock-hangar or position itself over a docking port. When it's time to leave, the sled travels against the station's rotation again, and the shuttle can just drift away.<br /><br />One way to look at it is a landing pad where you can turn the gravity on and off. It's not, really, but you can think of it that way.<br /><br />I'm not sure how sliding a mass like that around the spinning station might cause the station to wobble, though.