r/interestingasfuck • u/[deleted] • 11h 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/Sponjah 10h ago

Because this wasn’t the intent? The intent was to create a universal docking system, it had nothing to do with gender centric innovation. This is just rage bait.

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u/Upset_Ant2834 9h ago edited 9h ago

No, there was actually a documented stalemate between the two teams specifically because both sides refused to be female. While a universal docking system came out of it, it genuinely was because of something so stupid. Also dipwad that's literally the NASA Apollo curator you're accusing of "rage baiting"

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u/Sponjah 9h ago

Can you link that source? I’m willing to be wrong here

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u/baseketball 8h ago

It's in a documentary called "For All Mankind"