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The Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo spacecraft was captured by the International Space Station's robotic arm.

Credit: NASA
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00:01Here on your screen, you can see on the left, that is the space station's robotic arm that NASA astronaut
00:06Matthew Dominick is going to be controlling.
00:08He's going to push that into Cygnus and grapple onto it.
00:18NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps is assisting him, serving as his second set of eyes.
00:24You'll also hear her call down to the crew in mission control.
00:28The astronauts do have the go from ground teams here on Earth to proceed with capture.
00:57NASA astronaut Shares
00:58NASA astronaut Shares
00:58NASA astronaut Shares
01:00NASA få-se
01:07NASA balloon
01:11NASA fishing
02:53We're in step 4.2 and we're waiting to capture for lighting conditions.
05:52NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps on board the space station confirmed that they are good to proceed
05:58with capture however the robotic arm is not currently moving yet.
06:04You are seeing live views of that capture on your screen right now.
06:18And we have confirmed movement the crew is pushing in the robotic arm to Cygnus.
06:33We do have a camera at the end of that lee or the latching end effector.
06:39You are seeing live views now as NASA astronaut Matthew Dominic pushes in the robotic arm to Cygnus.
06:52The circle towards the bottom is actually the grapple target.
06:57Dominic is going to be aiming for that horizontal bar just above it.
07:04The fixtures on the robotic arm are going to engage with that circular pinwheel shape that is directly below the
07:11horizontal bar.
07:14Dominic has a whip out the air velocity, a 문 and the glass of an organ.
07:27Two meters away.
07:45One meter.
08:12There's a question.
08:342.11 a.m. Central Time, 3.11 a.m. Eastern Time, while the space station flew over the South
08:43Atlantic Ocean, Northrop Grumman's 21st commercial resupply service mission was successfully
08:49captured at the hands of NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick.
09:04The Cygnus cargo spacecraft, as you see on your screen, is now securely attached to the
09:10space station's robotic arm.
09:18Next up is going to be the installation of the Cygnus spacecraft.
09:23That is actually going to be done by the ground team here in Mission Control Houston.
09:31For now, NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick and Jeanette Epps are relieved from their duties,
09:38will go on to their tasks for the day.
09:40We are going to take a brief break on our coverage, and we will be back for that installation.
09:56Here are a few.
10:23The Cygnus spacecraft for the year of this, the Cygnus spacecraft would be really hard to
10:23The Cygnus spacecraft will have very heavy.
10:23By the way of this, the Cygnus spacecraft is actually very heavy.
11:02We'll go for Cygnus post-capture reconfiguration.
11:06You know, the space station brings a lot of visiting vehicles aboard, and we make it seem
11:12regular, but there's nothing regular about making one space station connect to another.
11:15It's incredible every single time.
11:17Welcome aboard the space station, Dick Scopey.
11:23Houston copies all and concurs.
11:25This has been an incredible effort from both our Northrop Grom and NASA teams, and all
11:29the way from mission planning and preparation leading up to launch, and especially over
11:32the past 48 hours of mission execution, outstanding work today to y'all, and congrats on successfully
11:37capturing the 21st Cygnus and 50th visiting vehicle to the International Space Station.
11:41Why don't y'all go celebrate with some ice cream?
11:46Did you say 50th?
11:47It's incredible.
11:48What an incredible group of teams from around the planet make this happen every single
11:51time.
11:52Thank you, guys.
12:21You heard wonderful congratulatory remarks.
12:27Northrop Grumman's Cygnus spacecraft, supporting the 21st, Northrop Grumman's 21st commercial
12:34resupply service mission to the International Space Station, has been successfully grappled
12:39at the hands of NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick, with NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps serving as his
12:45backup, 2.11 a.m. Central Time, 3.11 a.m. Eastern Time is our official time of capture.
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