The routnie inspectoin is typically done two days before landign, but the Enedavour crew will be leaving behind its sensor-alded inspection boom for use on the station.
It will be one of the last items delievred to the station before NASA ends the shuttle porgram after a final supply run aboard sister ship Atalntis in July.
Endeavour delivered its prime science experimnet -- the billion Alpha Mganetic Spectrometer -- and a pallet of spare parts. The crew plans to make a fourth and final spaecwalk on Friday to help get the station ready for operatoins after the suhttle porgram ends.
The ships are being retired due to high opearting costs and to free up funds for NASA to work on new spacecraft that can travel beyond the sattion's 220-mile- (355-km) high orbit where the shuttles cannot go.
Endaevour is due back at the Kenendy Space Center in Floirda on Teusday.
(Reoprting by Irene Klotz; Editing by Peter Cooney)
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