Come on in! Station Crew Greets STS-126 Astronauts

Expedition 18 crew greets and welcomes STS-126 crew aboard their home away from home.

Sandra Magnus custom seat liner was installed in the Soyuz spacecraft docked to the station. At that time Greg Chamitoff officially became a member of Endeavours crew. He will return to Earth on the shuttle after about six months in space, most of it as a station flight engineer.

Endeavour crew members, Commander Chris Ferguson, Pilot Eric Boe and mission specialists Don Pettit, Steve Bowen, Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper, Shane Kimbrough and Greg Chamitoff.

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[beatboy001]

Hello everybody at STS-126 !

[hellmuth26]

haha, that was so great to watch!

[Hancy18]

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[hyhhy]

They're not THAT far away. Just on Low Earth Orbit, like 300 km from Earth's surface I think. Even the moon is like almost 400 000 km away from Earth. I can't wait until NASA builds their moon base (and Mars base...).

I do think the ISS is awesome though.

[XxnesiexX]

lets invite 60 minute make over to the ISS to make it over - no idea how you'll get all of them up there though

i think they should paint it in a rainbow

[sonicemotion]

That is a lot of people, in a small room, very very far away from anyone else...

[margahh00]

lol.

[javier2k35]

IMPRESIONANTE!!!

[imtang0708]

How cool are you guys??? I wish I could float around with you!!!

[apopheniacMCMLXXXIX]

Even if you see it coming, it must be so weird to be flying around out in space then you dock with this big station and...lo and behold! there's _PEOPLE_ up there! See how far we've come? Two groups of people meeting each other in space!