By SPA
Houston : Space shuttle Endeavour headed for home on Wednesday after delivering a Japanese module and a Canadian robot to the International Space Station.
Its 16-day mission was scheduled to end with a landing at Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 7:05 p.m. EDT (2305 GMT), 33 minutes before sundown, Reuters reported.
Weather forecasts looked favorable and the shuttle was in good shape except for a small nick in the windshield, possibly caused by space debris, said flight director Richard Jones.
The nick did not stop NASA officials from clearing Endeavour for landing nor did it concern the seven astronauts on the shuttle, he said.
“They are just as confident as we are that Endeavour is
ready to come home,” Jones said in a Tuesday night briefing at
Johnson Space Center.