Endeavour’s astronauts took care of some last-minute space station chores Saturday before packing up to come home and end the next-to-last shuttle flight.
The space shuttle and its crew of six will depart the International Space Station late Sunday night. They worked to repair one of the space station’s air purifiers and straightened out the suits that were used in four spacewalks. The final spacewalk of the mission, on Friday, completed the U.S. portion of station construction.
Mission Control praised the astronauts for “a job well done.”
Shuttle pilot Gregory Johnson and his crewmates installed a $2 billion physics experiment at the orbiting outpost, as well as an extension pole and a platform full of spare parts.
Endeavour is scheduled to return to Florida before dawn Wednesday, 16 days after blasting off.
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