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by mapt 433 days ago
tldr: These guys suffered rapid, progressive failures of their thruster control loops in orbit. They were close to either being stranded in space or impacting the station, in what might have been a lethal circumstance. Rebooting regained them just enough control authority to dock, and they did; Nobody wanted to risk touching the capsule after, not knowing how many minutes the thrusters would still be operational.