SpaceX Dragon crew welcomed in ceremony aboard the International Space Station

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SpaceX Dragon crew welcomed in ceremony aboard the International Space Station  A SpaceX capsule delivered four astronauts to the International Space Station early on Sunday, March 16, in a NASA crew-swap mission that will allow a pair of astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, to return home after nine unplanned months on the orbiting lab.  They were welcomed by the station's seven-member crew, which includes Wilmore and Williams — veteran NASA astronauts and retired Navy test pilots who have remained on the station after problems with Boeing's Starliner capsule forced NASA to bring it back to Earth without them after a test flight last year.   NASA TV / REUTERS VIDEO  Subscribe to The Manila Times Channel - https://tmt.ph/YTSubscribe   Visit our website at https://www.manilatimes.net   Follow us:  Facebook - https://tmt.ph/facebook  Instagram - https://tmt.ph/instagram  Twitter - https://tmt.ph/twitter  DailyMotion - https://tmt.ph/dailymotion   Subscribe to our Digital Edition - https://tmt.ph/digital   Check out our Podcasts:  Spotify - https://tmt.ph/spotify  Apple Podcasts - https://tmt.ph/applepodcasts  Amazon Music - https://tmt.ph/amazonmusic  Deezer: https://tmt.ph/deezer  Tune In: https://tmt.ph/tunein  #TheManilaTimes #worldnews  #spacex  #internationalspacestation

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00:00Onishi, the first Crew-10 astronaut through the hatch.

00:12Followed by Peskov.

00:19Nicole Ayers, the first of the FLY's newest class of astronauts to enter.

00:25And last commander of Crew-10, Anne McClain.

00:42SpaceX Crew-10, welcome aboard the S.S.

00:49Well hey everybody down there on Earth, Crew-10 has had a great journey up here, about 28

01:08hours to get back up to the space station.

01:10And I cannot tell you the immense joy of our crew when we looked out the window and we

01:16saw the space station for the first time, returning for a couple of people, very first

01:21time for a couple of people.

01:23And let me tell you, that is such an amazing journey.

01:27You can hardly even put it into words, the ride up on the Falcon 9, orbiting the Earth

01:32for the last couple of days, it's been absolutely incredible.

01:35And it is something that none of us could do by ourselves.

01:39As we've said before, you cannot be great without the greatness of others.

01:42And I tell you, the greatness of the ground control teams have really shined through in

01:46the last few days, getting us up here safely.

01:48Thank you very, very much.

01:50Hey, from the bottom of my heart, thanks to our families, friends and colleagues, from

01:58all the partners, SpaceX, NASA, CSA, ESA, Roscosmos and JAXA for preparing us and making

02:08it possible for us to get here.

02:10And we are so excited to now be officially part of the Expedition 72.

02:17Thank you, guys.

02:18And I want to say a couple of words in Japanese from here.

02:21Thank you for your support, everyone in Japan.

02:24We were able to come back to the ISS in good spirits.

02:28We will continue to work hard tomorrow, including the science we hope to do, and we will do

02:34our best in various tasks.

02:35Thank you for your support.

02:37OK.

02:39Thanks a lot.

02:40Thanks a lot one more time to SpaceX and NASA for this wonderful ride.

02:48That was really fun.

02:50And thanks to all the world's airspace industry, which works to make the dreams to come true

02:56and to take us further and further.

02:58That's really wonderful.

03:00Thanks to everyone working there.

03:03I'd like to just say again, thank you to SpaceX for the awesome ride up here.

03:07As a rookie, that was one of the coolest things I've ever done.

03:11And I can't wait to get to work up here.

03:14So excited for the four pilots and us that just got to get to space together.

03:18And now we're four astronauts together.

03:20So thank you to all of our friends and families.

03:23And thank you to all of the instructors and all of the ground teams who got us here.

03:28Can't wait to get started.

03:30And Houston, thank you for tuning in this early morning.

03:33It was a wonderful day.

03:35Great to see our friends arrive.

03:37So thank you so much.

04:07NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

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