Endeavor Preparing for Return

HOUSTON (AP) - The holiday visit by the shuttle Endeavour's
seven astronauts is ending.
They bid farewell to the international space station crew after
they ate a Thanksgiving meal together of turkey, cornbread dressing
and candied yams.
The shuttle is set to undock early Friday and return to Florida
on Sunday.
The Endeavour crew delivered a new bathroom, kitchenette, two
bedrooms, exercise equipment, and a system that purifies urine,
sweat and condensation into drinking water. All the gear is needed
to double the space station's population to six next year.
Astronauts also performed four spacewalks to clean and lubricate
a jammed joint that rotates solar wings in the direction of the sun
in order to generate power.
The shuttle will bring back Gregory Chamitoff, who lived for six
months at the space station.