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International Effort Brings an Open Standard For Docking In Space

Posted by timothy on from the best-place-to-dock dept.

FTL writes "Engineers from the US, Russia, Japan, Canada and Europe have come together to publish an International Docking Standard for spaceships. Currently the space station has three different types of incompatible docking ports, and the Chinese are developing their own. Standardizing on one type would permit interoperability and facilitate emergency rescues."

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  1. Re:Imagine by Dthief · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    but what is the docking port is being used by an american, and as a russian you want to go in the back door.......does its stretch/shrink as well?

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