Originally Posted by
Tourist
The Russians seem to have solved the problem in 1965 and then updated...
I believe you'll find Kurs has had several docking failures with ISS. If I remember correctly, in some cases they were able to retry and dock, while others required them to use some kind of remote manual control system.
But, for some of them, I may be confusing it with Mir. Didn't they actually hit Mir and damage one of the modules during one docking attempt?