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?

02:24All right. Let's roll.

02:38All right. Standby. Standby.

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 eleven twelve thirteen we're ready to roll

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

03:52after having made fun of crew eight for being or for launching late they arrive early to the space

03:58station and have 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 see

04:28crew eight 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 a leg and nikolai there you

04:44are uh 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

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

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

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

05:35six months i know that our flight's going to go by in a blink of an eye and i'm really anxious to start

05:40thanks for the very warm welcome from cruise 7

05:42i 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 made it here

05:54всем привет с орбиты ну что мы добрались полет был достаточно легким поэтому надеюсь что

06:03продолжение будет подобным всем спасибо и всем передаю большой привет

06:09thanks uh sense uh sense a lot uh old teams

06:12well once again uh welcome to the national 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

06:35all 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

06:51we are now resuming operational communications

06:54and 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

07:19crew 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 falcon 9 rocket

07:34following orbital insertion the dragon vehicle carrying crew eight completed a series of automatic maneuvers

07:40to 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 janet epps

07:50and roscosmos cosmonaut alexander grubinkin docked to the international space station at 128 a.m central

07:56228 a.m eastern on tuesday march 5th as the space station and dragon were traveling over the north atlantic

08:02just east of newfoundland

08:04just east of newfoundland

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