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From: mcdowell@cfa250.harvard.edu (Jonathan McDowell)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: International Standards
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Date: 17 Mar 89 15:42:14 GMT
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From article <1436@cfa200.cfa250.harvard.edu>, by willner@cfa250.harvard.edu (Steve Willner P-316 x57123):
[ ASTP docking adaptor: used by USSR subsequently?]

I also remember the idea that the adaptor would become standard; but I think it was
more of an assumption made by the US side than anything that was in the 
official accords; I cant find a copy of those, dooes anyone have them?
Anyway the system has not been used subsequently, and the current Soyuz/Mir
units are the old probe and drogue type. The Lyappa system to be used to handle
the Mir modules does have a petal-type adaptor, but it is a much smaller
system and is not a ring system of the ASTP type.

- Jonathan McDowell