Word: tsibliyevs
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...Tsibliyev took one more look at the screen and shouted to Foale, "Michael! Get in the spacecraft...
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...
JUNE 25, 1 P.M. Vasili Tsibliyev sorely wanted to leave the bridge. His ship was damaged; his crew was alone; and it was safe to assume that this, the ground's second experiment with seat-of-the-pants flying, was over...
...ground controllers had different ideas. "Stay at your post!" they ordered. Tsibliyev repeated his request a few minutes later, and was told again, "Stay at your post!" At NASA, once the sworn rival of the Soviet space program, such an order would probably not stand, not when the pilots being commanded were self-styled cowboys like Alan Shepard or Gordon Cooper. But the Russian program was a different beast, and cosmonauts learn early that the word of the ground is all but inviolable. Tsibliyev, despite himself, stayed at his post...
...replace the air that had been lost. While Foale remained behind in the transfer node to make sure the bolts holding the sphere together hadn't been damaged by the collision, Lazutkin unstowed a large tank of pure oxygen, wrestled it into the main module and, with Tsibliyev's help, opened its nozzle. Instantly, a loud, sibilant hiss echoed through the ship. Off in the node, Foale heard the noise and, knowing the difference between the sound of air entering a spacecraft and the sound of air leaving it, heaved a relieved sigh...