Talk:Androgynous Peripheral Attach System

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--Zeke 22:00, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

NASA seems to be calling it the "androgynous peripheral assembly system" nowadays (though boeing still uses "attach"). change the article name?

--aonicc 04:07, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

New docking systems are in design, the IDSS from NASA will be used on the ISS for a truly international standard docking system and will replace the PMAs currently used for shuttle docking. Should the IDSS passive and active rings be added here as a type of APAS? See Article http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/jscfeatures/articles/000000914.html See Article http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2008/01/04/220598/nasa-develops-new-docking-system-for-constellation.html

As a new Section, or Article with cross links, "Docking Adapters" I.E. ASTP APAS is an adapter PMA is an Adapter CDA is an adapter ATLAS is an adapter

4 Adapters and who knows how many other adapters Pressurized and Unpressurized exist? Hubble has a passive LIDS or SCM adapter ring installed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Impact_Docking_System http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/servicing/SM4/main/SCRS_FS_HTML.html -- Darren Hensley, 10:39 18 Aug 2010 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 160.149.1.36 (talk) 15:51, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

I always understood the point of this docking system was due to the fact that most systems had a clear male and female end (which are acceptable terms in electrics and other fields). In order for this mission to go further, a new docking system needed to be designed as neither the USA or USSR would accept being the female receiving side while the other docked in their port. I can't find reference though, does anyone have anything? Ticketjockey (talk) 15:12, 6 February 2014 (UTC)

APAS-75: Codeveloped and had hoped to become a docking standard
Early on the Americans called it the International Rendezvous and Docking Mission (IRDM) Docking Mechanism. http://www.hq.nasa.gov/pao/History/SP-4209/ch6-5.htm#photo43 --Craigboy (talk) 02:33, 28 September 2014 (UTC)

NASA press packet for ASTP - Lots of info http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/Documents/ASTP2.pdf --Craigboy (talk) 05:51, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

http://www.jamesoberg.com/androgynous_peripheral_docking_system.pdf --Craigboy (talk) 06:06, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

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