Commander Matthew Dominick, pilot Michael Barratt, mission specialists Jeanette Epps and Aleksandr Grebenkin arrived at the International Space Station after docking.
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00:23And contact confirm dragon make contact with the international space station at 1128 P.M. pacific wall flying central over the North Atlantic
00:29oceans of east of Newfoundland
00:39You can see the SpaceX suits that the Crew 8 crew members were wearing for the
00:45docking operations as well as for launch on Sunday, March 3rd. Crew 8 is
00:53currently standing by and they will be ingressing into the International Space
00:57Station just a short time from now.
01:03And there we can see Crew 8 being joyfully welcomed aboard the
01:10International Space Station.
01:20First aboard was NASA astronaut Matthew Dominic. Followed behind him NASA
01:26astronaut Michael Barrett and NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps. And pulling up
01:31the end we have Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grubinkin.
01:49The Crew 8 astronauts now officially a part of Expedition 70 and the other
01:57Expedition 70 crew members giving them hugs and handshakes as they make their
02:02way onto the International Space Station, which will be their home for the next
02:06six months as they conduct important science and research.
02:21This is Houston on Space to Ground 2. Are you ready for the event?
02:27All right. Let's roll. All right. Standby. Standby.
02:50Sorry about that. Can you give us a little count on the microphone? We
02:54weren't getting the audio down here.
03:14Check. Okay. Just another quick count.
03:231, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
03:37All right. 11, 12, 13. We're ready to roll.
03:43Excellent. A big warm welcome to Crew 8 from all of us up here.
03:51Wouldn't you know it after having made fun of Crew 8 for being or for launching
03:56late, they arrive early to the Space Station and have us scrambling this
04:00morning. But it's absolutely fantastic to see their smiling faces. Welcome to
04:06space, Matt, Jeannette and Alex, and welcome back to space to Mike. This is
04:15also for Crew 7 a slightly bittersweet moment because with their arrival it
04:20also starts the countdown to our own departure and return to Earth in about a
04:26week's time. But it's great to see Crew 8. Welcome. You guys are going to have a
04:31fantastic mission. I'm sure of it. And we look forward to spending the next week
04:36in space with you and for Laurel, Alec and Nikolai, there you are, a few more
04:46weeks. But welcome to you and I'll pass the mic to you, Matt. Thank you so much.
04:54We are of course super excited to be here and after we saw you call us out
04:58yesterday we phoned a few friends to expedite things to kind of throw you off
05:01guard on purpose or so we hope or wished. Anyway, we're so excited to be
05:06here. A big thank you to everyone who helped put this together, such a giant
05:09team around the world. And we're excited to be on board and ready to take over
05:14the watch. Over to you, Mike. Well, first thing, it's just great to be back. There's
05:19such a sense of familiarity and homeness to the station and I can't wait to get
05:24back to work. But just a big shout out to all the folks who got us up here to
05:28NASA, our friends at SpaceX for building a great little spaceship and a little
05:32taste 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
05:38really anxious to start. Thanks for the very warm welcome from Crew 7.
05:44I second everything that Matt and Mike has said and I just want to thank my
05:50family as well for being patient with me and I made it here.
05:56Well, once again, welcome to the National Space Station. This is an
06:22incredible place. You will have a great time up here just like we did. We are
06:27doing so much exciting science at the moment and we look forward to
06:31introducing you to all of it. So once again, welcome Crew 8.
06:39All 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 8 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 8 began their
07:21journey to the orbiting laboratory following a liftoff at 9.53 p.m.
07:25Central, 10.53 p.m. Eastern on Sunday, March 3rd from launch pad 39A at
07:30NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida atop a Falcon 9 rocket. Following orbital
07:36insertion, the Dragon vehicle carrying Crew 8 completed a series of automatic
07:39maneuvers to guide the spacecraft to the forward-facing port of the station's
07:43Harmony module. Dragon Endeavour and its four-person crew of NASA astronauts
07:47Matthew Dominick, Michael Barrett and Jeanette Epps and Roscosmos cosmonaut
07:51Alexander Grubinken docked to the International Space Station at 1.28 a.m.
07:55Central, 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.