The SpaceX crew that will ferry back two astronauts stranded on the International Space Station arrives at the orbiting laboratory. NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Gorbunov board the ISS and embrace their floating colleagues Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore. When Hague and Gorbunov return from the space station in February, they will bring back the two space veterans, whose stay on the ISS was prolonged for months due to problems with their Boeing-designed Starliner spacecraft.
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00:00The bell has been rung. Alexander Corbin out of the first through of Crew 9 being welcomed
00:20by Expedition 72. International Space Station and joining Expedition 72. First off I just
00:35want to say thank you to the teams that got us ready to fly Freedom to the station and
00:41it was an awesome ride. Coming through the hatch and seeing all the smiles and as much
00:47as I've laughed and cried in the last 10 minutes I know it's going to be an amazing
00:53expedition so I'm really looking forward to getting to work up here. We're now over in
00:59orbital daytime. The station and Dragon are approximately 260 statute miles.