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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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00:00You
00:12Soft capture confirmed
00:15And
00:17Contact confirm dragon made contact with the International Space Station at 11 28 p.m
00:23Pacific while flying central over the North Atlantic Ocean just east of Newfoundland
00:31You
00:33And now you are seeing a live view inside the dragon Endeavour spacecraft
00:39You can see the SpaceX suits that the crew a crew members were wearing for the docking operations
00:47As well as for launch on Sunday March 3rd
00:52Create is currently standing by and they will be ingressing into the International Space Station
00:59Just a short time from now
01:05And there we can see crew eight being joyfully welcomed aboard the International Space Station
01:20First aboard was NASA astronaut Matthew Dominic
01:24Followed behind him NASA astronaut Michael Barrett and NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps and
01:31Pulling up the end. We have Roscosmos cosmonaut, Alexander Grubin can
01:35You
01:50The crew eight astronauts now officially a part of Expedition 70 and
01:56the other Expedition 70 crew members
01:59Giving them hugs and handshakes as they make their way onto the International Space Station, which will be their home
02:05For the next six months as they conduct important science and research
02:21Station this is Houston on space to ground to are you ready for the event?
02:24You
02:34All right, let's roll all right stand by stand by
02:39You
02:50Hey Andy, sorry about that. Can you give us a little count on the microphone? We weren't getting the audio down here
03:03You
03:10You
03:14Check
03:18Okay, just said another quick count
03:24One two three four five
03:31Six seven eight nine ten
03:35All right, 11 12 13, we're ready to roll
03:43Excellent a big warm welcome to crew eight
03:47From all of us up here
03:49Wouldn't you know it after having made fun of Kuwait for being or for launching late?
03:54They arrive early to the space station and have us scrambling this morning
03:58But it's absolutely fantastic to see their smiling faces
04:03Welcome to space
04:05Matt Jeanette and
04:07Alex and welcome back to space to Mike
04:12This is also for crew seven a slightly bittersweet moment because with their arrival
04:17It's also starts to count down to our own
04:20Departure and return to earth in about a week's time, but it's great to see Kuwait
04:26Welcome, you guys are gonna have a fantastic mission
04:29Welcome you guys are gonna have a fantastic mission
04:32I'm sure of it and we look forward to spending the next week in space with you and for
04:40Laurel
04:42Alec and
04:43Nikolai there you are a few more weeks, but welcome to you and I'll pass the mic to you Matt
04:53Thank you so much we are of course super excited to be here and after we saw you call us out yesterday
04:58We phoned a few friends to expedite. Thanks 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
05:07thank you to everyone who helped put this together such a giant team around the world and
05:11We're excited to be on board and ready to take over the watch over you Mike
05:17Well first thing is just great to be back
05:19There's such a sense of familiarity and homeness to the station and 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 ability a great little spaceship and a little taste of the flexibility this morning that we'll be
05:34Expecting over the next six months
05:36I know that our flights gonna go by in a blink of an eye and really anxious to start
05:40Thanks for the very warm. Welcome from crew seven. I
05:46Second everything that I'm
05:47Matt and Mike has said and I just want to thank my family as well for being patient with me and I made it here
05:55I
05:57Said we get sorbita. No, so we the brilliance
06:00Pilot bull does such an illogic. Um, I don't know. I guess you've probably needed
06:05Podobnym, I've seen Spasibo. Yes. I'm period. I a bunch of previous
06:09sense sense a lot all teams
06:18Well, once again, welcome to the National Space Station, this is an incredible place you will have a
06:25Great time up here. Just like we did. We are doing so much exciting science at the moment and we look forward to
06:32Introducing you to all of it. So once again, welcome crew eight
06:40All right, thanks station for 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
06:56You
07:08And there you have it crew eight is officially on board the International Space Station and welcomed by the
07:14Expedition 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
07:25Central 10 53 p.m
07:27Eastern on Sunday March 3rd from launch pad 39 a and NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida atop a Falcon 9 rocket
07:35following orbital insertion
07:36The dragon vehicle carrying crew eight completed a series of automatic 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 Jeanette Epps and Roscosmos cosmonaut
07:52Alexander Grubin can talk to the International Space Station at 1 28 a.m
07:55Central to 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

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