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?

02:24Okay.

02:34All right, let's roll.

02:38All right, standby.

02:39Standby.

02:39sorry about that can you give us a little count on the microphone we weren't getting the audio

02:55down here

03:09check okay just said another quick count one two three four five six seven eight nine ten

03:35all 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

04:04um welcome to space uh matt jeanette and uh alex and welcome back to space to uh mike um this is uh

04:16also for crew seven a slightly bittersweet moment because with their arrival it also starts the

04:21countdown to our own uh departure and return to earth in about a week's time but it's great to

04:28see create uh welcome you guys are going to have a fantastic mission i'm sure of it um and we look

04:34forward to spending the next week in space with you and uh for uh laurel oleg 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

04:50thank 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 put

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

05:14over the watch over to you mike well first thing it's just great to be back there's such a sense of

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

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

05:31spaceship and a little taste of the flexibility this morning that we'll be expecting over the next six

05:36months i know that our flight's going to go by in a blink of an eye and uh really anxious to start

05:40thanks for the very warm welcome from cruise 7. i second everything that um matt and mike has said and

05:49i just want to thank my family as well for being patient with me and i made it here

05:54uh well once again uh welcome to the natural space station this is uh an incredible place uh you will

06:24have a great time up here just like we did uh we are doing so much exciting science at the moment

06:30and we look forward to introducing you to all of it so once again welcome crew eight

06:40all right uh thanks station for all of that i can tell you on behalf of us that are left here on the

06:45planet we are incredibly proud to be part of this and we're all smiling down here all right station we

06:51are now resuming operational communications

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

07:13by the 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

07:49and janet epps and roscosmos cosmonaut alexander grubinkin docked to the international space station at 1

07:5528 a.m central 2 28 a.m eastern on tuesday march 5th as the space station and dragon were traveling over

08:01the north atlantic just east of newfoundland

08:12you

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