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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00:00Soft 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.
00:30And 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
00:47as 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
00:58just a short time from now.
01:04And there we can see Kru-8 being joyfully welcomed aboard the International Space Station.
01:12The first aboard was NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick, followed behind him NASA astronaut Michael
01:27Barrett and NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps.
01:30And pulling up the end we have Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grubinkin.
01:35The Kru-8 astronauts now officially a part of Expedition 70 and the other Expedition 70 crewmembers giving them hugs
01:44and handshakes as they make their way onto the International Space Station which will be their home for the next six months as they conduct important science and research.
02:05for the next six months as they conduct important science and research.
02:21Spatian, this is Houston on Space to Ground 2. Are you ready for the event?
02:24Spatian, this is Houston on Space to Ground 3. Are you ready for the event?
02:34All right, let's roll.
02:38All right, stand by. Stand by.
02:39Stand by.
02:51Hey, Andy, sorry about that. Can you give us a little count on the microphone?
02:54we weren't getting the audio down here
03:14check
03:18okay just a another quick count
03:20one two three four five
03:31six seven eight nine ten
03:38all right eleven twelve thirteen we're ready to roll
03:40excellent uh a big warm welcome to crew eight uh from all of us up here uh wouldn't you know it
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
04:15um 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 it's
04:27great to see create uh welcome you guys are going to have a fantastic mission i'm sure of it um and
04:34we look forward to spending the next week in space with you and uh for uh laurel
04:42oleg and nicolai there you are uh a few more weeks uh but uh welcome to you and i'll pass the mic uh to
04:50you matt
04:50uh thank you so much uh we are of course super excited to be here and after we saw you uh 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 who 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
05:19such a sense of familiarity and homeness to the station and i can't wait to get back to work but
05:25just a big shout out to all the folks who got us up here for nasa our friends at spacex for ability
05:30a great little spaceship and a little taste of the flexibility this morning that we'll be
05:34expecting over the next six months i know that our flight's going to go by in a blink of an eye
05:38and i'm really anxious to start thanks for the very warm welcome from crew seven
05:42i second everything that i'm matt and mike has said and i just want to thank my family as
05:50well for being patient with me and i made it here
05:54and i'm really excited to be here
06:18well once again uh welcome to the national space station this is
06:21uh an incredible place uh you will have a great time up here just like we did uh we are doing so
06:28much exciting science at the moment and we look forward to introducing you to all of it so once
06:33again welcome crew eight all right uh thanks station for all of that i can tell you on behalf of us that
06:44are left here on the planet we are incredibly proud to be part of this and we're all smiling down here
06:50all right station we are now resuming operational communications
07:08and there you have it crew eight is officially on board the international space station and welcomed by
07:13the expedition 70 crew bringing the current space station population to 11 for the next few days
07:20crew eight began their journey to the orbiting orbiting laboratory following a liftoff at 9 53 p.m central
07:2610 53 p.m eastern on sunday march 3rd from launch pad 39a at nasa's kennedy space center in florida atop 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 janette
07:49epps and ross cosmos cosmonaut alexander grubinkin 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 were traveling over the north
08:01atlantic just east of newfoundland