The crew of NASA's last space shuttle flight are done packing up their gigantic suitcase for the ride home.
The astronauts aboard shuttle Atlantis awoke to the song "Celebration," by Kool and the Gang, dedicated by the crew at Stennis Space Center, in Mississippi.
The 10-member joint crew of Atlantis and the space station spent Sunday putting some final items in Raffaello, the Italian-made cargo canister that's the size of a bus.
Atlantis' four astronauts also took time off Sunday to relax before heading home.
The compartment will be moved from the ISS back onto Atlantis early Monday. It carried up tons of food, supplies and other household goods, and it will return with dozens of bundles of trash and discarded equipment. The ISS should be able to support a full-time crew of six through 2012 with all this supplies.
Then Atlantis will undock from the space station Tuesday at 2:28 a.m. and aim for a Thursday landing back at the Kennedy Space Center at 5:57 a.m., ending the 30-year space shuttle program.
Source: http://www.cfnews13.com/article/news/2011/july/280416/Moving-day-done-for-Atlantis-crew?cid=rss
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