The Androgynous Peripheral Attach System, #APAS, was put into production to aid the joint #US-#Soviet #space mission, the #Apollo-#Soyuz Test Project (#ASTP).
An American Apollo craft and a Soviet Soyuz would rendezvous in orbit and dock.
Existing docking systems were “probe and drogue” type, and relied on an “active” component to enter a “passive” side of the docking system.
APAS was preferable to forcing one partner to not have an active role in the docking, as well as solved the engineering challenge on how to fit a new docking port on the Soyuz.
The US had to develop an adapter.
The USSR continued developing a new version of APAS to use with their shuttle, Buran.
The Kristall Mir module had 2 APAS docking ports that Buran would have used, but Buran’s APAS system was converted for use on the American Shuttle so it could dock.
#NASA, #AndrogynousPeripheralAttachSystem, #Photography, #Photograph, #Photo
https://heronfox.pixels.com/featured/androgynous-peripheral-attach-system-at-kscvc-heron-and-fox.html

#Germany ’s audit watchdog #APAS handed Ernst&Young #EY, the 2016-2020 auditor of #Wirecard a €500,000 fine and banned it from taking on new audits for companies of public interest for 2y, chart @FT https://cutt.ly/N7wXRXp

#EY darf zwei Jahre keine neuen Prüfungsmandate bei Börsenkonzernen übernehmen. Die Prüferaufsicht #Apas hat im Skandal-Fall #Wirecard massive Pflichtverletzungen festgestellt. Nun erteilt Apas EY ein teilweises Wettbewerbsverbot. https://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/dienstleister/wirecard-skandal-ey-darf-zwei-jahre-keine-neuen-pruefungsmandate-bei-boersenkonzernen-uebernehmen/29071046.html

In the #KSC Visitors Complex #AtlantisMuseuem, #NASA’s #SpaceShuttle #Orbiter #Atlantis is displayed for the public as if were in #space.
The payload bay doors are open, the #APAS docking ring is extended, and the Shuttle Remote Manipulator System #SRMS, or #Canadarm, is stretched out of the #payloadbay for visitors to get a close look at.
This photograph shows the #endeffector, which clasped onto specially build grapple-holds so the robot arm can firmly grasp its payload.
https://heronfox.pixels.com/featured/canadarm-end-effector-2-heron-and-fox.html

#NASA, #Roscosmos, #CNSA : do you read me ? https://youtu.be/ARJ8cAGm6JE
The #rescue agreement was ratified on 📆 December 3, 1968 "upon becoming #aware that the personnel of a #spacecraft are in distress [...] any state party shall extend #assistance in the #rescue operation"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_policy#The_Rescue_Agreement
How about #prevention of #distress ?

#APAS #docking #international #collaboration #emergency #airlock

#Tiangong is fitted with the #Chinese 🇨🇳 #docking mechanism based on the #Russian 🇷🇺 APAS-89/APAS-95 system. #NASA is describing it as a "clone" to #APAS on the #ISS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiangong_space_station#Docking
Would be an #alternative to a #risky landing with a partly operational #Soyuz in case of an #emergency (#depressurization / #ammonia #contamination or similar) ?

Wonder whether #GatewaySpaceport's #Hatship #pod got a docking mechanism which fits (both) ? https://gatewayspaceport.com/pod-2

Picture : APAS-95 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:STS-131_flight_day_two_Discovery%27s_RMS_and_OBSS.jpg