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From: willner@cfa250.harvard.edu (Steve Willner P-316 x57123)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: International Standards
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Date: 15 Mar 89 22:56:15 GMT
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From article <4400@drivax.DRI>, by macleod@drivax.DRI (MacLeod):
> A month or so ago I made the heretical statement that the USA ask for
> technical specs for Soviet docking and fastening interfaces and adopt them 
> as an international standard.   Nobody commented on this.  On second
> thought, though, there a third set of standards, those used by the ESA.

Part of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project was the development of a new
docking adaptor.  I vaguely remember that the agreement for ASTP
included the provision that the new adaptor would be used in future
missions by the US and USSR.  Can anyone confirm or deny that this
provision was part of the agreement?  And does anyone know whether
the current Soyuz/Mir adaptors are made according to the ASTP
specifications?
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