SHUTTLE DOCKING SYSTEM
The Orbiter Docking System that connects Atlantis to Mir serves a variety of functions beyond being a tunnel to lead astronauts to a historic handshake with cosmonauts. Much of its design heritage is in the system that joined Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft 20 years ago, but the current system is...
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