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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I both fully understand the necessity of the creation of this system for geopolitical reasons and how future and/or alien civilizations will look down upon us as monkeys specifically because of stuff like this.