NASA's SpaceX Crew-8 Entered International Space Station After Docking

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Commander Matthew Dominick, pilot Michael Barratt, mission specialists Jeanette Epps and Aleksandr Grebenkin arrived at the International Space Station after docking.  Credit: NASA

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00:00Soft capture confirmed.

00:16And contact confirmed.

00:19Dragon made contact with the International Space Station at 11.28 p.m. Pacific

00:23while flying central over the North Atlantic Ocean just east of Newfoundland.

00:30And now you are seeing a live view inside the Dragon Endeavour spacecraft.

00:39You can see the SpaceX suits that the Kru-8 crewmembers were wearing for the docking operations

00:47as well as for launch on Sunday, March 3rd.

00:52Kru-8 is currently standing by and they will be ingressing into the International Space Station

00:58just a short time from now.

01:04And there we can see Kru-8 being joyfully welcomed aboard the International Space Station.

01:12First aboard was NASA astronaut Matthew Dominic followed behind him NASA astronaut Michael

01:27Barrett and NASA astronaut Jeannette Epps and pulling up the end we have Roscosmos cosmonaut

01:34Alexander Grubinkin.

01:50The Kru-8 astronauts now officially a part of Expedition 70 and the other Expedition 70 crewmembers giving them hugs

02:00and handshakes as they make their way onto the International Space Station which will be their home

02:05for the next six months as they conduct important science and research.

02:09Spatioon, this is Houston on Space to Ground 2. Are you ready for the event?

02:24I'll set it.

02:35All right. Let's roll.

02:38All right. Stand by. Stand by.

02:50Hey, совman. Can you give us a little count on the microphone?

02:54phone we weren't getting the audio down here check okay just said another quick

03:20count one two three four five six seven eight nine ten all right 11 12 13 we're ready to roll

03:40excellent a big warm welcome to crew eight from all of us up here wouldn't you know it after having

03:53made fun of create for being or for launching late they arrive early to the space station and

03:58have us scrambling this morning but it's absolutely fantastic to see their smiling faces welcome to

04:06space uh matt jeanette and uh alex and welcome back to space to uh mike um this is uh also for crew

04:17seven a slightly bittersweet moment because with their arrival it also starts the countdown to our

04:22own uh departure and return to earth in about a week's time but it's great to see crew eight

04:29uh welcome you guys are going to have a fantastic mission i'm sure of it um and we look forward to

04:35spending the next week in space with you and uh for uh laurel a leg and nikolai there you are

04:45uh a few more weeks uh but uh welcome to you and i'll pass the mic uh to you matt

04:51thank you so much uh we are of course super excited to be here and after we saw you uh call us out

04:58yesterday we phoned a few friends to expedite things to kind of throw you off guard on purpose

05:02or so we hope or wished anyway we're so excited to be here a big thank you to everyone uh who helped

05:08put this together such a giant team around the world and uh we're excited to be on board and ready

05:13to take over the watch over to you mike well first thing it's just great to be back there's such a sense

05:20of familiarity and homeness uh to the station and i can't wait to get back to work but just a big

05:26shout out to all the folks who got us up here for to nasa our friends at uh spacex for ability a great

05:30little spaceship and a little taste of the flexibility this morning that we'll be expecting

05:35over the next six months i know that our flight's going to go by in a blink of an eye and uh really

05:39anxious to start thanks for the very warm welcome from crew seven

05:46i second everything that um matt and mike has said and i just want to thank my family as well for

05:51being patient with me and i'm i made it here

06:18well once again uh welcome to the natural space station this is

06:21an incredible place uh you will have a great time up here just like we did uh we are doing so

06:28much exciting science at the moment and we look forward to introducing you to all of it so once

06:33again welcome crew eight all right uh thanks station for all of that i can tell you on behalf of us that

06:44are left here on the planet we are incredibly proud to be part of this and we're all smiling down here

06:50all right station we are now resuming operational communications

07:08and there you have it crew eight is officially on board the international space station and welcomed by

07:13the expedition 70 crew bringing the current space station population to 11 for the next few days

07:20crew eight began their journey to the orbiting orbiting laboratory following a liftoff at 9 53 p.m central

07:2610 53 p.m eastern on sunday march 3rd from launch pad 39a at nasa's kennedy space center in florida atop a

07:33falcon 9 rocket following orbital insertion the dragon vehicle carrying crew eight completed a series of

07:39automatic maneuvers to guide the spacecraft to the forward-facing port of the station's harmony module

07:44dragon endeavor and its four-person crew of nasa astronauts matthew dominic michael barrett and janette

07:49epps and roscosmos cosmonaut alexander grubinkin docked to the international space station at 1 28 a.m central

07:562 28 a.m eastern on tuesday march 5th as the space station and dragon were traveling over the north

08:02atlantic just east of newfoundland

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