'You leave nothing to chance': Astronauts prepare for arrival of Boeing's Starliner at space station

Boeing is due to launch the company’s first-ever crewed mission next week.

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00:27 The arrival of a brand new vehicle, the first crewed flight of a new generation spacecraft is a really big deal.

00:33 You leave nothing to chance.

00:35 So, in fact, we just finished a conference on our training schedule for it.

00:39 We're going to be going over every detail involved in the rendezvous approach docking

00:43 and every little nook and cranny of possibilities that we need to look at.

00:48 So, basically, the same procedures and precautions we would take with any vehicle

00:52 except the excitement ratchets up a little bit because it's a brand new vehicle.

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01:06 And there we can see Crew 8 being joyfully welcomed aboard the International Space Station.

01:12 There's so many things that wowed me.

01:16 You know, when I saw it, wow, that's all I could think.

01:19 And just the feeling of being weightless in space, this whole feeling.

01:25 And, you know, this was the biggest wow.

01:28 You just kind of float and it's natural in space.

01:31 It becomes natural, I should say.

01:33 But the biggest thing for me was seeing the planet from this vantage point.

01:38 It's absolutely breathtaking.

01:41 And its beauty, its position in space, the blackness around it, all of it will just, you know,

01:51 it just causes you to gasp and just say, wow, that's our home.

01:56 And there's nothing nearby.

01:58 So we really have to take care of our planet.

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