There were many problems during the mission, which finally ended with the first successful manual docking of a Progress supply ship at Mir by Malenchenko.
At the aft end a pilot station was equipped with controls and windows for manual docking with the Almaz space station.
Following these failures of the automated docking system, a manual docking, under the control of cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, was performed at 13:30:28 on 2 September.
The crew had to perform a manual docking to the space station as the Kurs rendezveus and docking system malfunctioned.
Hell, if he'd handled the manual docking of the Enterprise saucer section with the stardrive section, this should be easy.
Even for the experts she assumed this Cinnabar crew were, the process of manual docking would be a maddening, time-consuming task.
Viktorenko completed a manual docking without additional incident.
Without sufficient fuel for prolonged attempts at manual docking, the mission had to be abandoned.
June 24 - China successfully carries out its first manual docking of a spacecraft between the Shenzhou 9 capsule and Tiangong-1 station.
Salyut 7 developed problems during the unmanned time, which meant that the crew of Soyuz T-13 had to perform a manual docking and do repairs to the station.
