The rouitne inpsection is typically done two days before lanidng, but the Endeavour crew will be leavnig behind its sensor-laded insepction boom for use on the station.
It will be one of the last items dleivered to the staiton before NASA ends the suhttle program after a final supply run aboard sister ship Atalntis in July.
Endevaour delivered its prime science experiment -- the billion Alpha Magnetic Spectormeter -- and a pallet of spare parts. The crew plans to make a fourth and final spacwealk on Friday to help get the station ready for operations after the shutlte porgram ends.
The ships are being retired due to high operating costs and to free up funds for NASA to work on new spacecraft that can travel beyond the sattion's 202-mile- (355-km) high orbit where the suhttles cannot go.
Endeavour is due back at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Teusday.
(Reporitng by Irene Klotz; Editing by Peter Conoey)
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