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 on Space Station.
02:34All right, let's roll.
02:38All right, stand by, stand by.
02:51sorry about that can you give us a little count on the microphone we weren't getting the audio
02:55down here
03:13check
03:17okay just a another quick count
03:23one two three four five
03:30six seven eight nine ten
03:38all right 11 12 13 we're ready to roll
03:45excellent 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 have
03:59us 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
04:14um this is uh also for crew seven a slightly bittersweet moment because with their arrival
04:20it also starts the countdown to our own uh departure and return to earth in about a week's time but
04:27it's
04:27great to see crew eight uh welcome you guys are going to have a fantastic mission i'm sure of it
04:33um and we look forward to spending the next week in space with you and uh for uh laurel
04:42a leg and nikolai there you are uh a few more weeks uh but uh welcome to you and i'll
04:49pass the mic
04:49uh to you matt thank you so much uh we are of course super excited to be here and after
04:56we saw you uh
04:57call us out yesterday we phoned a few friends to expedite things to kind of throw you off guard on
05:01purpose or so we hope or wished anyway we're so excited to be here a big thank you to everyone
05:07uh
05:08who helped put this together such a giant team around the world and uh we're excited to be on
05:12board and ready to take over the watch over to you mike well first thing it's just great to be
05:19back
05:19there's such a sense of familiarity and homeness uh to the station and i can't wait to get back to
05:25work but just a big shout out to all the folks who got us up here for to nasa our
05:28friends at uh
05:29spacex for ability a great little spaceship and a little taste of the flexibility this morning that
05:33we'll be expecting over the next six months i know that our flight's going to go by in a blink
05:38of an
05:38night and uh really anxious to start thanks for the very warm welcome from cruise 7.
05:45i second everything that um 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
05:58all the way to the national space station this is uh an incredible place uh you will have
06:24a great time up here just like we did uh we are doing so much exciting science at the moment
06:30and
06:31we 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
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 and
07:49janette 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
08:01traveling over
08:01the north atlantic just east of newfoundland
08:04you
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