# @iss on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C36UFRrvZEd
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/76363221-iss-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2024-02-29T00:23:35.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** International Space Station (@iss) — https://gondola.cc/iss

## Caption

The Expedition 70 crew aboard the International Space Station is getting ready to welcome four new crew members from the SpaceX Crew-8 mission. Crew-8 has been given the go to launch to the orbital outpost at 12:04 a.m. EST on Friday, March 1, aboard the SpaceX Dragon “Endeavour” spacecraft. The Commercial Crew quartet will take an automated ride aboard Dragon for a docking to Harmony’s forward port at 7 a.m. on Saturday.

Pic 1) The seven-member Expedition 70 crew gathers for a dinner time portrait inside the International Space Station's Unity module. In the front row from left are, Flight Engineers Konstantin Borisov of Roscosmos, Jasmin Moghbeli of NASA, and Satoshi Furukawa from JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency). In the back row are, Commander Andreas Mogensen from ESA (European Space Agency), NASA Flight Engineer Loral O'Hara, and Roscosmos Flight Engineers Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub.

Pic 2) Members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 from left to right, NASA astronauts Jeanette Epps, mission specialist; Michael Barratt, pilot; Matthew Dominick, commander; and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin, mission specialist; are photographed inside the crew access arm at Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida during a dress rehearsal on Monday, Feb. 26, 2024, in preparation for the Crew-8 mission.

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crew8, nasa, space, station, kennedyspacecenter, spacex, commercial, cosmonaut, ksc, crew, commercialcrew, kennedy, astronaut, international, florida

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