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.
01:12First 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
01:34Gurbinkin.
01:50The Kru-8 astronauts now officially a part of Expedition 70 and the other Expedition 70 crewmembers giving them hugs and handshakes as they make their way onto the International Space Station, which will be the
01:52their home for the next six months as they conduct important science and research.
02:09Spatian, this is Houston on Space to Ground 2. Are you ready for the event?
02:24Spatian, this is Houston on Space to Ground 2. Are you ready for the event?
02:39Sorry about that.
02:52Can you give us a little count on the microphone?
02:54We weren't getting the audio down here.
03:09One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
03:35All right, 11, 12, 13, we're ready to roll.
03:45Excellent.
03:46A 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 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.
04:04Welcome to space, Matt, Jeannette, and Alex.
04:11And welcome back to space, to Mike.
04:14This is also for Crew 7, a slightly bittersweet moment, because with their arrival,
04:19it also starts the countdown to our own departure and return to Earth in about a week's time.
04:26But it's great to see Crew 8.
04:28Crew 8, welcome.
04:30You guys are going to have a fantastic mission, I'm sure of it.
04:34And we look forward to spending the next week in space with you.
04:37And for Laurel, Oleg, and Nikolai, there you are, a few more weeks.
04:47But welcome to you, and I'll pass the mic to you, Matt.
04:53Thank you so much.
04:54We are, of course, super excited to be here.
04:56And after we saw you call us out yesterday, we phoned a few friends to expedite things
05:00to kind of throw you off guard on purpose.
05:02Or so we hope, or wished.
05:04Anyway, we're so excited to be here.
05:06A big thank you to everyone who helped put this together.
05:09Such a giant team around the world.
05:11And we're excited to be on board and ready to take over the watch.
05:15Over to you, Mike.
05:17Well, first thing, it's just great to be back.
05:19There's such a sense of familiarity and homeness to the station.
05:23And I can't wait to get back to work.
05:25But just a big shout out to all the folks who got us up here for NASA,
05:28our friends at SpaceX for a building a great little spaceship
05:31and a little taste of the flexibility this morning that we'll be expecting over the next six months.
05:36I know that our flight's going to go by in a blink of an eye.
05:38And I'm really anxious to start.
05:40Thanks for the very warm welcome from Crew-7.
05:43I second everything that Matt and Mike have said.
05:49And I just want to thank my family as well for being patient with me.
05:52And I made it here.
05:54Hello everyone.
05:57Hello everyone from the orbit.
05:59Well, that's how we got here.
06:00The flight was quite easy.
06:02So I hope that the flight will be the same.
06:06Thank you all and I'm giving you a big hug.
06:09Thanks a lot, all teams.
06:18Well, once again, welcome to the National Space Station.
06:21This is an incredible place.
06:23You will have a great time up here just like we did.
06:27We are doing so much exciting science at the moment.
06:30And we look forward to introducing you to all of it.
06:33So once again, welcome, Crew-8.
06:40All right.
06:41Thanks, Station.
06:42For all of that, I can tell you on behalf of us that are left here on the planet,
06:45we are incredibly proud to be part of this and we're all smiling down here.
06:49All right, Station, we are now resuming operational communications.
06:53And there you have it.
07:09Crew-8 is officially on board the International Space Station and welcomed by the Expedition 70 crew,
07:15bringing the current space station population to 11 for the next few days.
07:19Crew-8 began their journey to the 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 Falcon 9 rocket.
07:34Following orbital insertion, the Dragon vehicle carrying Crew-8 completed a series of automatic maneuvers
07:39to guide the spacecraft to the forward-facing port of the station's Harmony Module.
07:44Dragon Endeavour and its four-person crew of NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barrett,
07:49and Jeanette Epps, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grubinkin docked to the International Space Station
07:54at 1.28 a.m. Central, 2.28 a.m. Eastern on Tuesday, March 5th, as the Space Station and Dragon were traveling over the North Atlantic,
08:02just east of Newfoundland.