Space Shuttle Endeavour to Land Tonight

From SPACE.com:

NASA's space shuttle Endeavour and its seven-astronaut crew are coming home today to end an intense construction job at the International Space Station (ISS). Commanded by veteran shuttle flyer Dominic Gorie, Endeavour and its crew are set to land tonight on a runway here at NASA's Kennedy Space Center and set a new record for the longest space station construction mission ever flown. "Endeavour is in great shape," Gorie said during a series of televised interviews late Tuesday. "We're looking forward to a beautiful, late afternoon landing tomorrow, right before sunset." The shuttle is due to land at 7:05 p.m. EDT (2305 GMT) to conclude its 16-day mission, which delivered a storage room for Japan's massive Kibo lab and a giant Canadian-built maintenance robot called Dextre, to the space station among other tasks. "It was an incredible run that we had and I'm not sure we could have done it without the guys around me," Gorie said of his crew.

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