00:12Soft 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.
00:33And 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
00:46as 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
00:59just a short time from now.
01:05And there we can see Kru-8 being joyfully welcomed aboard the International Space Station.
01:20First aboard was NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick followed behind him NASA astronaut Michael
01:27Barrett and NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps and pulling up the end we have Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander
01:34Grubinkin.
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 the
02:04their home for the next six months as they conduct important science and research.
02:21Space Station, this is Houston on Space to Ground 2. Are you ready for the event?
02:25Space Station, this is Houston.
02:31Space Station, this is Houston.
02:34Space Station, this is Houston.
02:35Space Station, this is Houston.
02:36Space Station, this is Houston.
02:36Space Station, this is Houston.
02:38Space Station, this is Houston.
02:39Space Station, this is Houston.
02:40Space Station, this is Houston.
02:43Space Station, this is Houston.
02:50Space Station, this is Houston.
02:51Space Station, this is Houston.
02:53count on the microphone we weren't getting the audio down here
03:14check
03:18okay just a another quick count
03:23one two three four five
03:30six seven eight nine ten
03:37all right eleven twelve thirteen we're ready to roll
03:45excellent uh a big warm welcome to crew eight uh from all of us up here uh wouldn't you know
03:52it
03:52after having made fun of create 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
04:15is 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
04:28create 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
04:42oleg and nikolai there you are uh a few more weeks uh but uh welcome to you and i'll pass
04:49the mic
04:49uh to you matt
04:50uh thank you so much uh we are of course super excited to be here and after we saw you
04:57uh call
04:57us out yesterday 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
05:08who 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
05:19a sense of familiarity and homeness uh to the station and i can't wait to get back to work but
05:25just a
05:25big shout out to all the folks who got us up here for nasa our friends at spacex for ability
05:30a 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 really anxious
05:39to start
05:40thanks for the very warm welcome from crew seven
05:45i second everything that i'm matt and mike has said and i just want to thank my family as well
05:51for
05:51being patient with me and i made it here
05:57всем привет с орбиты ну что мы добрались полет был достаточно легким поэтому надеюсь что
06:03и продолжение будет подобным всем спасибо и всем передаю большой привет
06:09sounds uh sounds a lot uh old teams
06:18well 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
06:30moment
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
06:45here 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
07:19crew eight began their journey to the orbiting orbiting laboratory following a liftoff at 9 53 p.m central
07:2510 53 p.m eastern on sunday march 3rd from launch pad 39a at nasa's kennedy space center in florida
07:32atop a falcon 9 rocket following orbital insertion the dragon vehicle carrying crew eight completed a
07:38series of automatic maneuvers to guide the spacecraft to the forward-facing port of the station's harmony
07:43module dragon endeavor and its four-person crew of nasa astronauts matthew dominic michael barrett and
07:49janet epps and roscosmos cosmonaut alexander grubinkin talked to the international space station at 1 28 a.m central
07:562 28 a.m eastern on tuesday march 5th as the space station and dragon were traveling over the north
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