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?
02:24Space Station, this is Houston on Space Station.
02:25Space Station, yesterday is Houston on Space Station.
02:54phone we weren't getting the audio down here
03:14check
03:18okay just said another quick count
03:23one
03:24two
03:25three
03:26four
03:27five
03:30six
03:31seven
03:32eight
03:33nine
03:34ten
03:37all right 11, 12, 13 we're ready to roll
03:45excellent
03:46a big warm welcome to
03:48crew eight
03:49from all of us up here
03:51wouldn't you know it after having
03:53made fun of create for being
03:55or for launching late
03:56they arrive early to the space station and have us scrambling this morning
04:00but it's absolutely fantastic to see their smiling faces
04:06welcome to space
04:10and we'll be right now and we'll be right back to the space and we'll be right back to space
04:37with you, and for Laurel, Oleg, and Nikolai, there you are, a few more weeks. But welcome
04:48to you, and I'll pass the mic to you, Matt. Thank you so much. We are, of course, super
04:55excited to be here, and after we saw you call us out yesterday, we phoned a few friends
04:59to expedite things to kind of throw you off guard on purpose, or so we hope, or wished.
05:04Anyway, we're so excited to be here. A big thank you to everyone who helped put this
05:08together, such a giant team around the world, and we're excited to be on board and ready
05:13to take over the watch. Over to you, Mike.
05:17Well, first thing, it's just great to be back. There's such a sense of familiarity and
05:21homeness to the station, and I can't wait to get back to work, but just a big shout out
05:26to all the folks who got us up here from NASA, our friends at SpaceX for a building a great
05:30little spaceship, and a little taste of the flexibility this morning that we'll
05:34be expecting over the next six months. I know that our flight's going to go by in
05:38a blink of an eye, and I'm really anxious to start. Thanks for the very warm welcome
05:42from Cruise 7.
05:45I second everything that Matt and Mike have said, and I just want to thank my family
05:50as well for being patient with me, and I made it here.
05:57Welcome to the National Space Station. This is an incredible place. You will have a
06:00And I'm going to thank you.
06:00Thank you very much.
06:00So, I hope I will continue.
06:06Thank you very much.
06:07Thank you very much, and I'm giving you a great
06:08shout out to all the teams.
06:18Well, once again, welcome to the National Space Station. This is an incredible place.
06:23you will have a great time up here just like we did we are doing so much
06:28exciting science at the moment and we look forward to introducing you to all
06:33of it so once again welcome crew eight
06:40all right thanks station for all of that I can tell you on behalf of us that are
06:44left here on the planet we are incredibly proud to be part of this and
06:48we're all smiling down here all right station we are now resuming operational
06:53communications
07:08and there you have it crew eight is officially on board the International
07:12Space Station and welcomed by the expedition 70 crew bringing the current
07:16space station population to 11 for the next few days crew eight began their
07:21journey to the orbiting orbiting laboratory following a liftoff at 9 53 p.m.
07:25central 10 53 p.m. Eastern on Sunday March 3rd from launch pad 39 a at NASA's
07:31Kennedy Space Center in Florida atop a Falcon 9 rocket following orbital
07:36insertion the dragon vehicle carrying crew eight completed a series of
07:39automatic maneuvers to guide the spacecraft to the forward-facing port of the
07:42station's harmony module dragon endeavor and its four person crew of NASA
07:47astronauts Matthew Dominic Michael Barrett and Jeanette Epps and Roscosmos
07:51cosmonaut Alexander Grubinkin docked to the International Space Station at 1 28 a.m.
07:56central 2 28 a.m. Eastern on Tuesday March 5th as the space station and dragon
08:00were traveling over the North Atlantic just east of Newfoundland
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