This was a more detailed story on the recovery: https://arstechnica.com/science/2014/09/the-little-known-soviet-mission-to-rescue-a-dead-space-station/ https://

This was a more detailed story on the recovery: https://arstechnica.com/science/2014/09/the-little-known-soviet-mission-to-rescue-a-dead-space-station/ https://arstechnica.com/science/2014/09/the-little-known-sov... Lots more details, including transcripts of some of the procedures, such as the opening of the hatch.