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.
02:55So, I'll see you next week.
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.
04:36And 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.
04:51And from there they will receive a safety briefing
04:55and begin their approximately two-week mission aboard the International Space Station
05:00in which they will participate in around 60 research investigations
05:04representing 31 countries with more than two dozen of those experiments
05:08sponsored by the ISS National Lab.
05:21And there they all are waving back at our coverage here inside
05:27of the International Space Station flight control room.
05:32Station Houston on two.
05:34Thanks for the wave.
05:34Great to see everybody.
05:47Houston Station.
05:49We are happy to be here.
05:50It is so great to be here finally.
05:53It was a long quarantine.
06:15we are happy to be here.
06:16We are grateful at ourirevções.
06:16This is wonderful.
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06:39And with the crew now in the space station, we're going to wrap up our portion of the
06:44live joint coverage from Hawthorne.
06:46It's been an honor to support Axiom Mission 4 thus far, and we wish the crew a successful
06:51time on the space station.
06:53We're, of course, also looking forward to joining AX4 again when it's time to return
06:57home.
06:58Ronny, from launch to docking, it has been an absolute pleasure sharing this desk with
07:02you.
07:03What has been years in the making for India, Poland, and Hungary is now well underway.
07:10Axiom Space and NASA's joint coverage will continue from here through to the welcome
07:14ceremony as Peggy, Shubanchu, Swavosh, and Tibor start their two weeks aboard the orbiting laboratory.
07:21Over the course of our crew's time on station, we will be producing mission updates from
07:25Axiom Space's own space station development facility in Houston, Texas, so we invite you
07:30to 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
07:47on NASA+, Axiom.Space.com, 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!
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