With that long list of problems and failed sensors & software on the Nauka module, the Russian team's hands-on real-time efforts to keep the thing functionally

With that long list of problems and failed sensors & software on the Nauka module, the Russian team's hands-on real-time efforts to keep the thing functionally flying seem quite impressive - sharp save-the-day work. That said, allowing the thing to dock before they could implement more stable fixes seems quite unwise - and especially just before a flight path out of communication with the team. Why couldn't they just wait a few orbits or days? Seems as unwise as launching a shuttle in out-of-spec cold conditions, they just barely got away with it this time. I recall seeing a recent high level criticism of NASA losing (again) its safety culture - seems like another supporting data point for that thesis.