Space Shuttle Endeavour Prepares to Land

By LIZ AUSTIN PETERSON, Associated Press Writer, Space & Earth science / Space Exploration

This image provided by NASA on Sunday, Aug. 19, 2007, shows Canadian astronaut Dave Williams during the final of four space walks on the international space station, Saturday, Aug. 18. Astronauts aboard the shuttle Endeavour and the international space station on Saturday embarked on the last spacewalk of their joint mission, an outing that was scaled back because of approaching Hurricane Dean. (AP Photo/NASA)

(AP) -- With their work in orbit done, space shuttle Endeavour's crew closed their payload bay doors and prepared to land Tuesday, one day early because of the threat NASA once feared Hurricane Dean could pose to Mission Control in Houston.

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