What a terrifying experience:

250m from the station, staring straight at it, but all the thrusters that push you in that direction are not responding. The station just out of grasp and abort mission no longer an option (returning to earth requires the same thrusters); you’re told to take your hands off the controls and pray that the remote signal from the ground to ‘turn it off and back on again’ solves your problem.

By some miracle it returns some control to you, the decision is made to run that reset again, even more control comes back; and now you successfully dock.

I can’t even imagine the feeling of relief when that airlock/dock finally opens…

Wilmore: “Thankfully, these folks are heroes. And please print this. What do heroes look like? Well, heroes put their tank on and they run into a fiery building and pull people out of it. That’s a hero. Heroes also sit in their cubicle for decades studying their systems, and knowing their systems front and back. And when there is no time to assess a situation and go and talk to people and ask, ‘What do you think?’ they know their system so well they come up with a plan on the fly. That is a hero. And there are several of them in Mission Control.”