Val did her best not to sound annoyed at the fact that she had to make yet another course correction before she got a chance to recalibrate the RCS thrusters. Not that they were malfunctioning in any way, she simply didn't like the feel of how the controls responded. It was something only a pilot would understand as they have to work very intimately with their spacecraft. She could cope with how the controls were now but personalizing the inputs would make it much less stressful to maneuver and ultimately more efficient.
Annoyingly she had already made it to the back of the ship where the more complex ship systems such as the Reaction Control Systems could be accessed and more easily modified. She tapped the nearby intercom. "I'm on it." Back again to the cockpit for a few seconds of thrust, at the current range it wouldn't take more than a minute change in heading to alter their course far enough to pass by harmlessly.
Settling in and reactivating RCS, she grabbed hold of the control stick. For a second she thought about accelerating without giving her crewmate the benefit of a warning. The thought of his smug face smacking squarely into the floor was an amusing thought. Fortunately Val wasn't so cruel as to possibly ruin whatever experiments he might have gotten started for the sake of a practical joke and, she still had a job to do after all. She tapped the intercom again. "Brace for some mild acceleration Doctor. Ready in three... two... one... burn." The RCS kicked the same way as last time. Calling it mild acceleration was a bit of an exaggeration but it only lasted a few seconds and it was over. "All done." The new course would put them about one hundred meters away from the satellite. They would pass by close enough to see it through the windows, which is something she was looking forward. She always liked to see old designs and the philosophy behind their construction. Now she could finally go back to Engineering and calibrate the RCS thrusters to her liking.