SpaceX Ax-4 Crew Enters Space Station After Docking

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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

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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.

02:37the National Space Station has come up every that has been expressed to the International

02:39Network, in Sum financed Amemstry meaning stations cuma STA 4, Anne McLean, in a

03:06Axiom Mission 4 is now aboard the International Space Station.

03:12Commander 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,

03:25commander of Axiom 2 and here of Axiom 4.

03:30Regaling the crew with smiles and stories to her left, or our left from her viewpoint to her right.

03:41Svava Shuznensky-Vishnyevsky of ISA, Shubanshu Shukla to her left of ISRO and

03:49Timur Kapu on that far right hand side of our viewpoint.

04:00The crew is

04:30is safely aboard the International Space Station. Welcome again to Axiom Mission 4.

04:36And we are continuing to target a formal welcome remark from the crew and being joined by the

04:44Expedition 73 team as well. That will be at approximately 8.35 a.m. Central Time.

04:51And from there, they will receive a safety briefing and begin their 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.

05:21And there they all are, waving back at our coverage here inside of the International Space Station

05:28flight control room.

05:31Station Houston on 2. Thanks for the wave. Great to see everybody.

05:35Houston Station. We are happy to be here. It is so great to be here finally. It was a long quarantine.

06:05The International Space Station product as well.

06:12It is a tonic. It is a tonic. This is just a few quarters and a half caps.

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06:26And 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 AX4 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, Swabosh, and Tibor start their two weeks aboard the orbiting laboratory.

07:21Over the course of our cruise 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 AX4 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 AX4.

07:56Go AX4.

07:57Go AX4.

07:58Go AX4.

07:59Go AX4.

08:01Go AX4.

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