Androgynous Peripheral Attach System (APAS), a spacecraft docking mechanisms, Co-developed by American and Soviet engineers through a series of in-person meetings, letters and teleconferences, APAS-75 was initially planned to be used on an American mission to a Salyut space station which instead became the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project


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