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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03:01Axiom Mission 4 is now aboard the International Space Station.
03:13Commander Peggy Whitson in her return to the orbiting laboratory, her fifth flight, three
03:19as a member of NASA and her second as commander of an Axiom Space private astronaut mission,
03:26here of Axiom 2 and here of Axiom 4, regaling the crew with smiles and stories to her left,
03:39or our left from her viewpoint to her right, Svava Shuznensky-Vishniewski of ISA,
03:45Shubanchu Shukla to her left of ISRO and Timur Kapu on that far right hand side of our viewpoint.
04:26The 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
04:42and being joined by the Expedition 73 team as well.
04:45That will be at approximately 8.35 a.m. Central Time and from there they will receive a safety briefing
04:54and begin their nearly approximately two week mission aboard the International Space Station
04:59in which they will participate in around 60 research investigations representing 31 countries
05:05with more than two dozen of those experiments sponsored by the ISS National Lab.
05:15And there they all are waving back at our coverage here inside of the International Space Station flight control room.
05:30Station Houston on two. Thanks for the wave. Great to see everybody.
05:36Station Houston Station. We're happy to be here. It's so great to be here finally. It was a long quarantine.
05:55Welcome back.
05:58Welcome back to Off-Down K
06:18And with the crew now in the space station, we're going to wrap up our portion of the
06:44live joint coverage from Hawthorne.
06:46It's been an honor to support Axiom Mission 4 thus far, and we wish the crew a successful
06:51time on the space station.
06:53We're, of course, also looking forward to joining AX-4 again when it's time to return
06:57home.
06:58Rani, 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
07:14ceremony as Peggy, Shubanchu, Suavosh and Tibor start their two weeks aboard the orbiting laboratory.
07:21Over the course of our crew's time on station, we will be producing mission updates from
07:25Axiom 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
07:35social media channels.
07:37So 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
07:47on NASA+, Axiom.space slash live and Axiom Space's social channels.
07:52With that, we'll turn it back over to you, Joseph.
07:54Have a great morning, everyone, and go AX-4.
07:56Go AX-4.
07:57Go AX-4.
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