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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00:29and contact confirm dragon made contact with the international space station at 1128 PM Pacific while flying central over the North Atlantic
00:31and now you are seeing a live view inside the dragon Endeavour spacecraft
00:39you can see the space X suits that the crew a crew members were wearing for the docking operations as well as for launch on Sunday March 3
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
01:08crew a being joyfully welcomed aboard the International Space Station
01:20first aboard was NASA astronaut Matthew Dominic followed behind him NASA astronaut Michael Barrett and NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps
01:30and pulling up the end we have Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grubinken
01:50the crew a astronauts now officially a part of Expedition 70
01:56and the other Expedition 70 crew members giving them hugs and 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
02:21Station this is Houston on space to ground to are you ready for the event
02:35all right let's roll
02:39all right stand by stand by
02:51Andy sorry about that can you give us a little count on the microphone we weren't getting the audio down here
03:19all right just another quick count
03:25one two three four five six seven eight nine ten
03:39twelve thirteen we're ready to roll
03:46excellent a big warm welcome to crew eight from all of us up here wouldn't you know it after having made fun of create for being or for launching late they arrive early to the space station and have us scrambling this morning but it's absolutely fantastic to see their smiling faces
04:06welcome to space Matt Jeanette and Alex and welcome back to space to Mike.
04:16This is also for crew seven a slightly bittersweet moment because with their arrival.
04:22to our own departure and return to Earth in about a week's time but it's great to see create welcome you guys are going to have a fantastic mission I'm sure of it and we look forward to spending the next week in space with you and for Laurel.
04:43Alex and Nikolai 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 we phoned a few friends to expedite things to kind of throw you off guard on purpose.
05:03Or so we hope or wished anyway we're so excited to be here a big thank you to everyone who helped put this together such a giant team around the world and we're excited to be on board and ready to take over the watch over you Mike.
05:18First thing is just great to be back there's such a sense of familiarity and homeness to the station.
05:23And I can't wait to get back to work but just a big shout out to all the folks who got us up here to NASA.
05:29Our friends at SpaceX for building a great little spaceship and a little taste of the flexibility this morning that will be expecting over the next six months.
05:37I know that our flights going to go by in a blink of an eye and really anxious to start.
05:41Thanks for the very warm welcome from crew seven.
05:46I second everything that Matt and Mike has said and I just want to thank my family as well for being patient with me and I made it here.
05:57Well 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 and we look forward to introducing you to all of it.
06:33So once again welcome crew eight.
06:40All right.
06:41Thanks 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.
06:50All right station.
06:51We are now resuming operational communications.
07:09And there you have it crew eight is officially on board the International Space Station and welcomed by the 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 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 nine rocket.
07:36Following orbital insertion the 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.
07:45Dragon Endeavor and its four person crew of NASA astronauts Matthew Dominic Michael Barrett and Jeanette Epps and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grubin can talk to the International Space Station at 1 28 a.m.
07:57Central 2 28 a.m.
07:58Eastern on Tuesday March 5th as the space station and Dragon were traveling over the North Atlantic just east of Newfoundland.