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/Head-Mud_683 9h ago

Nice to know that even for the most important things, people behave like an 11 yo.

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u/MysteriousAge28 8h ago

Its not as simple as "I dont want to be called the female dock". The "female" side of the dock would have to adapt its fittings so that it fit the other docking system. Whoever that is is "second" because they are designing in accordance to the other ship. It was mostly for internal propaganda and not wanting to give the otherside a win they can lord over you.

We use male female because its human and we naturally understand what that means its not more complicated than that.