1 00:00:06,710 --> 00:00:04,950 houston station on space to ground 2 00:00:08,629 --> 00:00:06,720 welcome to space to ground i'm shanique 3 00:00:10,470 --> 00:00:08,639 wolverine this week the first 4 00:00:12,150 --> 00:00:10,480 all-private astronaut mission docked to 5 00:00:14,310 --> 00:00:12,160 the international space station while 6 00:00:16,390 --> 00:00:14,320 preparations are underway for a pair of 7 00:00:18,790 --> 00:00:16,400 russian spacewalks 8 00:00:21,349 --> 00:00:18,800 on saturday april 9th after a journey of 9 00:00:23,990 --> 00:00:21,359 almost 21 hours the axiom mission 1 10 00:00:26,550 --> 00:00:24,000 astronauts michael lopez alegria larry 11 00:00:27,830 --> 00:00:26,560 connor etan stebih and mark pathy 12 00:00:30,310 --> 00:00:27,840 arrived at the international space 13 00:00:31,910 --> 00:00:30,320 station the spacex dragon spacecraft 14 00:00:34,709 --> 00:00:31,920 docked to the harmony module while the 15 00:00:36,470 --> 00:00:34,719 spacecraft were flying about 260 miles 16 00:00:38,709 --> 00:00:36,480 above the atlantic ocean 17 00:00:40,790 --> 00:00:38,719 lopez alegria is on his fourth space 18 00:00:43,670 --> 00:00:40,800 flight and his first as an axiom space 19 00:00:45,830 --> 00:00:43,680 astronaut he partnered with ax1 pilot 20 00:00:48,630 --> 00:00:45,840 larry connor to explore how living in 21 00:00:51,189 --> 00:00:48,640 microgravity affects cellular aging and 22 00:00:53,750 --> 00:00:51,199 cardiac cells the other two axiom one 23 00:00:56,709 --> 00:00:53,760 astronauts mark pathy and eton stevie 24 00:00:59,029 --> 00:00:56,719 explored dna sequencing brain dynamics 25 00:01:01,670 --> 00:00:59,039 the cardiovascular system and tested 26 00:01:04,630 --> 00:01:01,680 holocortation or transmitting mixed 27 00:01:05,670 --> 00:01:04,640 reality 360 degree images of humans to 28 00:01:07,910 --> 00:01:05,680 space 29 00:01:09,990 --> 00:01:07,920 the flight of axiom one represents both 30 00:01:12,070 --> 00:01:10,000 a culmination of nasa's efforts to 31 00:01:14,390 --> 00:01:12,080 foster a commercial market in low earth 32 00:01:16,390 --> 00:01:14,400 orbit and a beginning of a new era of 33 00:01:19,910 --> 00:01:16,400 space exploration that will enable more 34 00:01:21,910 --> 00:01:19,920 people to fly on more kinds of missions 35 00:01:24,870 --> 00:01:21,920 looking ahead a pair of russian space 36 00:01:27,190 --> 00:01:24,880 walkers will venture outside the station 37 00:01:29,030 --> 00:01:27,200 two cosmonauts continue gearing up for a 38 00:01:31,270 --> 00:01:29,040 pair of spacewalks the first to be 39 00:01:33,350 --> 00:01:31,280 conducted on monday april 18th to 40 00:01:35,190 --> 00:01:33,360 configure the naoka multi-purpose 41 00:01:36,469 --> 00:01:35,200 laboratory module for the european 42 00:01:38,550 --> 00:01:36,479 robotic arm 43 00:01:41,030 --> 00:01:38,560 ross cosmos flight engineers oleg 44 00:01:42,789 --> 00:01:41,040 artemyev and denise machvaeff had a 45 00:01:44,789 --> 00:01:42,799 fitness test checked their orland 46 00:01:47,350 --> 00:01:44,799 spacesuits and installed pressure tanks 47 00:01:49,590 --> 00:01:47,360 in the poisk module as part of standard 48 00:01:52,069 --> 00:01:49,600 pre-spacewalk preparations 49 00:01:53,590 --> 00:01:52,079 russian flight engineer sergey korskakov 50 00:01:55,270 --> 00:01:53,600 set up hardware to assist the 51 00:01:56,950 --> 00:01:55,280 spacewalkers for their robotics work 52 00:01:58,950 --> 00:01:56,960 outside naoka 53 00:02:02,550 --> 00:01:58,960 as always you can watch the spacewalk 54 00:02:05,270 --> 00:02:02,560 live on nasa tv nasa.gov in the nasa app 55 00:02:07,109 --> 00:02:05,280 coverage starts at 10 am eastern 56 00:02:08,949 --> 00:02:07,119 you can get a daily on-orbit status 57 00:02:10,350 --> 00:02:08,959 report by visiting our space station 58 00:02:11,990 --> 00:02:10,360 blog at 59 00:02:13,750 --> 00:02:12,000 blogs.nasa.gov 60 00:02:15,430 --> 00:02:13,760 that's space to ground for this week 61 00:02:29,350 --> 00:02:15,440 thanks for watching we'll see you next