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.

03:04Axiom Mission 4 is now aboard the International Space Station.

03:11Commander Peggy Whitson, in her return to the orbiting laboratory, her fifth flight,

03:17three is a member of NASA and her second as commander of an Axiom Space private astronaut mission,

03:24commander of Axiom 2 and here of Axiom 4.

03:28Regaling the crew with smiles and stories to her left, or our left from her viewpoint to her right,

03:40Swavo Shuznensky-Vishniewski of ISA, Shubanchu Shukla to her left of ISRO and Timur Kapu on that far right-hand side of our viewpoint.

04:28The crew is safely aboard the International Space Station.

04:32Welcome again to Axiom Mission 4.

04:35And we are continuing to target a formal welcome remark from the crew and being joined by the Expedition 73 team as well.

04:45That will be at approximately 8.35 a.m. Central Time.

04:50And from there, they will receive a safety briefing and begin their 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.

05:31Station 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.

06:06Yeah?

06:33and with the crew now in the space station we're going to wrap up our portion of the live joint

06:45coverage from hawthorne it's been an honor to support axiom mission 4 thus far and we wish the

06:50crew a successful time on the space station we're of course also looking forward to joining ax4

06:56again when it's time to return home running from launch to docking it has been an absolute pleasure

07:02sharing this desk with you what has been years in the making for india poland and hungary is now

07:07well underway axiom 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

07:20over the course of our crew's time on station we will be producing mission updates from axiom space's

07:26own space station development facility in houston texas so we invite you to follow the progress

07:31of ax4 on axiomspace.com and through axiom spaces social media channels so with that on behalf of

07:38spacex axiom space and nasa thank you all for tuning in to watch while our stream on x is coming to a

07:44close coverage of the welcome ceremony now continues on nasa plus axiom dot space slash live and axiom

07:51spaces social channels with that we'll turn it back over to you joseph have a great morning everyone

07:55and go ax4

07:57you

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