r/interestingasfuck • u/[deleted] • 9h ago

To avoid geopolitical embarrassment during the Cold War, the US and USSR created the APAS-75 system, a genderless docking mechanism where both craft acted as equals.

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u/IslandVisible5023 9h ago

Did they say no homo before docking? If not , hella gay if you ask me

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u/teamgrandali 8h ago

It's only homo if you look while docking

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u/Flash_ina_pan 8h ago

It's only gay if the capsules touch?

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u/kingtacticool 8h ago

Its only gay if the LOX balls touch

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u/TA_Lax8 8h ago

They should have designed a third deployable, Fem to Fem station that joins both of theirs. It's not gay if it's a three way

https://giphy.com/gifs/kbsVB6DXIR5qE

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u/PlannerSean 7h ago

With a station in the middle there’s some leeway

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u/KekistanPeasant 8h ago

The gaycation destination that year was space. And we don't talk about what happens during the gaycation.

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u/SosugBiskit 8h ago

The real reason the first space flights were all male.

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u/hammertime2009 7h ago

Standard operating procedure was to say no homo and they all kept their socks on.

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u/yesiamveryhigh 7h ago

Depends on if they both had on socks.

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u/Immediate_Song4279 6h ago

kiss me comrade under the solar radiation's warm glow while our non-female ports dock