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Sex and Cold-War Technological Fixes, Part II
ASTP engineers had worked painstakingly to engineer the flight in a way that would remove the implication that one side, the "male," was dominating the other, the "female," but that...
Sex and Cold-War Technological Fixes, Part I
Like their counterparts among American defense intellectuals, Soviet engineers often imagined their work in sexual terms. Mating thus became a convenient shorthand for complex engineering couplings. Through the mid-1960s, docking...