The SpaceX Ax-4 mission crew, former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, pilot Shubhanshu Shukla and mission specialists Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski and Tibor Kapu, completed ingress of the International Space Station.
Credit: SpaceX / NASA | edited by Space.com's Steve Spaleta
00:00So Anne McLean and Nicole Ayers are starting to clear out the hatchway and we are going
00:20to see the first views of Axiom Mission 4.
00:23Commander Peggy Whitson, the first one across the APAS hatch, receiving great big hugs from
00:28Nicole Ayers and the Expedition 73 crew.
00:32Axiom Mission 4, welcome aboard the International Space Station.
00:36Pilot Shabanshu Shukla is the next one to come across, representing ISRO.
00:40It is his first space flight for Peggy Whitson, her return to the International Space Station
00:45on her fifth flight, second as a member of Axiom Space.
00:49Swabo Shuznansky-Vishnansky of ISRO representing the nation of Poland and their first visit
01:04to the International Space Station is next to cross the hatchway and warm hugs all around.
01:09And applause breaking out here inside of Mission Control Houston and International Space Station
01:18flight control room and Tibor Kapu, the fourth and final member of Axiom Mission 4, representing
01:23HUNOR and the nation of Hungary, their first visit to the International Space Station as well.
01:39Great big hugs and handshakes across all members of Expedition 73 and Axiom Mission 4, Anne McLean
01:56and Nicole Ayers of NASA, along with Johnny Kim, Kirill Pezkov, Sergei Ryzhikov, and Alexei
02:01Jabritsky of Roscosmos, and Takuya Onishi, Commander of Expedition 73 and of Ajaxa, with handshakes
02:07and hugs for Peggy Whitson, Shubanchu Shukla, Swabo Shuznansky-Vishnansky, and Tibor Kapu.
02:16And with their arrival to the International Space Station, that now makes 288 visitors to
02:21the orbiting laboratory.
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03:04Axiom Mission 4 is now aboard the International Space Station.
03:13Commander Peggy Whitson, in her return to the orbiting laboratory, her fifth flight.
03:19Three is a member of NASA and her second as commander of an Axiom Space private astronaut
03:25mission, commander of Axiom 2 and here of Axiom 4.
03:32Hailing the crew with smiles and stories to her left,
03:38or our left from her viewpoint to her right.
03:40Svava Shuznensky-Vishnyevsky of ISA, Shubanchu Shukla to her left of ISRO and
03:49Timur Kapu on that far right hand side of our viewpoint.
04:02Svava Shuz.
04:14The crew is safely aboard the International Space Station.
04:33Welcome again to Axiom Mission 4.
04:36And we are continuing to target a formal welcome remark from the crew
04:43and being joined by the Expedition 73 team as well.
04:46That will be at approximately 8.35 a.m. Central Time.
04:51And from there, they will receive a safety briefing
04:55and begin their approximately two-week mission aboard the International Space Station
05:00in which they will participate in around 60 research investigations representing 31 countries
05:06with more than two dozen of those experiments sponsored by the ISS National Lab.
05:13And there they all are waving back at our coverage here inside
05:27of the International Space Station flight control room.
05:32Station Houston on two.
05:33Thanks for the wave.
05:34Great to see everybody.
05:43Houston Station, we're happy to be here.
05:50It's so great to be here finally.
05:53It was a long quarantine.
06:13And with the crew now in the Space Station, we're going to wrap up at the International Space Station.
06:18And with the crew now in the Space Station, we're going to wrap up at the International Space Station.
06:20And with the crew now in the Space Station, we're going to wrap up our portion of the live joint coverage from Hawthorne.
06:32It's been an honor to support Axiom Mission 4 thus far, and we wish the crew a successful time on the Space Station.
06:39We're, of course, also looking forward to joining AX-4 again when it's time to return home.
06:44Ronny, from launch to docking, it has been an absolute pleasure sharing this desk with you.
06:51What has been years in the making for India, Poland, and Hungary is now well underway.
06:56Axiom Space and NASA's joint coverage will continue from here through to the welcome ceremony as Peggy, Shubanchu, Swavosh, and Tibor start their two weeks aboard the orbiting laboratory.
07:19Over the course of our crew's time on station, we will be producing mission updates from Axiom Space's own Space Station development facility in Houston, Texas.
07:29So we invite you to follow the progress of AX-4 on axiomspace.com and through Axiom Space's social media channels.
07:36So with that, on behalf of SpaceX, Axiom Space, and NASA, thank you all for tuning in to watch.
07:42While our stream on X is coming to a close, coverage of the welcome ceremony now continues on NASA+.
07:48Axiom Space, Axiom Space, and Axiom Space's social channels.
07:52With that, we'll turn it back over to you, Joseph.
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