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...below the station, while a tiny, pixilated smudge--Mir itself--vanished and reappeared as it flew from the white clouds to the black oceans and back again. Tsibliyev, however, saw even this small target as a good target. With little hesitation, he engaged one joystick and brought the cargo ship's thrusters to life. Somewhere above, the ship invisibly exhaled propellant and began descending toward the station...
Foale reckoned wrong. When Progress was little more than 3,500 ft. away, Tsibliyev noticed the solar panels growing faster than they should. Saying nothing, he hit his joysticks hard, applying a propulsive brake. Progress kept coming. He hit the sticks again. The ship sped on. "Michael," Tsibliyev said to Foale, "try getting a range mark...
Foale bounded back into the Kvant module, peered out the porthole and saw that the ship had not yet moved within the limited aperture of the little window. He swam back into the core module. "Nothing," he said to Tsibliyev. "Sasha?" Tsibliyev said to Lazutkin. "Nothing," Lazutkin echoed from his window...
...event of an emergency. But in those 11 years, there hadn't been a day when such an emergency had actually arisen. Now it looked as if it were going to, and it would be Michael Foale, the American guest, who would have to power up the ship and get it ready...
Wordlessly, Foale reversed direction and raced toward the Soyuz. He was aware that at this very second, at least, there was no real reason to abandon ship. Yes, Progress was closing in, but Tsibliyev was at the controls, and hadn't he dodged just such a bullet only weeks...