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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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00:15So 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, Commander Peggy Whitson, the first one across
00:25the A-Path hatch. Receiving great big hugs from Nicole 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
00:44on her fifth flight, second as a member of Axiom Space.
00:57Swabo 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.
01:10And 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.
01:41Great big hugs and handshakes across all members of Expedition 73 and Axiom Mission 4 is Anne McLean and Nicole
01:56Ayers of NASA along with Johnny
01:58Kim, Kirill Pezkov, Sergei Ryzhikov and Alexei Ryzhikov of Roscosmos and Takuya Onishi, commander of Expedition 73 and of Ajaxa
02:07with handshakes and hugs for Peggy Whitson, Shubanshu Shukla, Swabo Shuznansky-Vishnansky and Tibor Kapu.
02:16And with their arrival to the International Space Station that now makes 288 visitors to the orbiting laboratory.
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03:07Axiom Mission 4 is now aboard the International Space Station.
03:13Commander Peggy Whitson in her return to the orbiting laboratory, her fifth flight, three
03:19as a member of NASA and her second as commander of an Axiom Space private astronaut mission,
03:26commander of Axiom 2 and here of Axiom 4, regaling the crew with smiles and stories to her left,
03:38or our left from her viewpoint to her right, Svava Shuznensky-Vishniewski of ISA,
03:45Shubanchu Shukla to her left of ISRO and Timur Kapu on that far right hand side of our viewpoint.
04:29The crew is safely aboard the International Space Station.
04:33Welcome again to Axiom Mission 4 and we are continuing to target a formal welcome remark from the crew
04:43and being joined by the Expedition 73 team as well.
04:46That will be at approximately 8.35 a.m. Central Time and from there they will receive a safety briefing
04:55and begin their nearly approximately two week mission aboard the International Space Station
05:00in which they will participate in around 60 research investigations representing 31 countries
05:06with 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 flight control room.
05:32Station Houston on two. Thanks for the wave. Great to see everybody.
05:47Houston Station. We're happy to be here. It's so great to be here finally. It was a long quarantine.
06:39And with the crew now in the space station we're going to wrap up our portion of the live joint
06:44coverage from
06:45Hawthorne. It's been an honor to support Axiom Mission 4 thus far and we wish the crew a successful time
06:51on the space station.
06:53We're of course also looking forward to joining AX4 again when it's time to return home.
06:58Ronny from launch to docking it has been an absolute pleasure sharing this desk with you.
07:03What has been years in the making for India, Poland and Hungary is now well underway.
07:09Axiom Space and NASA's joint coverage will continue from here through to the welcome ceremony as Peggy,
07:15Shubanchu, 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 own
07:26space 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 social media channels.
07:36So 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 on NASA Plus,
07:48axiom.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!
07:57Go AX4!
07:57Go AX4!
07:58Go AX4!
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