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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.
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-Vishnevsky of ESA,
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 2, thanks for the wave, great to see everybody.
05:47Station Houston Station, we are happy to be here.
05:50It is so great to be here finally.
05:53It was a long quarantine.
06:06Station Houston on 2,000.
06:07Station Houston, quienes wore toll кровь.
06:15Station Houston Hospital.
06:16Station Houston, instruments,melapidfordfordfordfordfordfordfordford600 verdadeiroons.
06:24Station Houston,
06:25animations house Sensport,
06:34Station Arizona山,
06:39and 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 ronnie 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 chubanchu suavosh and tibor start their two weeks aboard the orbiting laboratory
07:20over the course of our cruise 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
07:44to a close coverage of the welcome ceremony now continues on nasa plus axiom dot space slash live
07:50and axiom spaces social channels with that we'll turn it back over to you joseph have a great morning
07:55everyone and go ax4
07:57you
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