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.
03:00And we have been 142,000 students in the same room and she's yourselves around 415,000 students
03:02and I've been 162,000 students live here.
03:07Axiom Mission 4 is now aboard the International Space Station.
03:13Commander Peggy Whitson, in her return to the orbiting laboratory, her fifth flight,
03:18three is a member of NASA, and her second as commander of an Axiom Space private astronaut mission,
03:26commander of Axiom 2, and here of Axiom 4.
03:28We're galing the crew with smiles and stories to her left, or our left from her viewpoint to her right.
03:42Swavo Shuznensky-Vishniewski of ISA, Shubanchu Shukla to her left of ISRO,
03:48and Timur Kapu on that far right-hand side of our viewpoint.
04:29The crew is safely aboard the International Space Station.
04:33Welcome again to Axiom Mission 4, and 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'll be at approximately 8.35 a.m. Central Time,
04:50and from there, they will receive a safety briefing and begin their nearly approximately two-week mission
04:58aboard the International Space Station in which they will participate in around 60 research investigations
05:04representing 31 countries with more than two dozen of those experiments sponsored by the ISS National Lab.
05:20And there they all are, waving back at our coverage here inside of the International Space Station flight control room.
05:32Station Houston on two.
05:34Thanks for the wave.
05:34Great to see everybody.
05:35Houston Station, we're happy to be here.
05:50It's so great to be here finally.
05:53It was a long quarantine.
06:34And with the crew now in the space station,
06:42we're going to wrap up our portion of the live joint coverage from Hawthorne.
06:46It's been an honor to support Axiom Mission 4 thus far,
06:49and we wish the crew a successful time on the space station.
06:53We're, of course, also looking forward to joining AX-4 again when it's time to return home.
06:57Rani, from launch to docking, it has been an absolute pleasure sharing this desk with you.
07:04What has been years in the making for India, Poland, and Hungary is now well underway.
07:10Axiom Space and NASA's joint coverage will continue from here through to the welcome ceremony as Peggy,
07:15Shubanchu, Suabanchu, Suabanchu, and Tibor start their two weeks aboard the orbiting laboratory.
07:20Over 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.
07:35So 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+, Axiom.space slash live, and Axiom Space's social channels.
07:52With that, we'll turn it back over to you, Joseph.
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