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Seven Endeavour astronauts have about an hour left in their nearly two-week stay on the International Space Station.
The crew will join the station's three residents for a farewell ceremony scheduled at 5:55 p.m. - but which could begin a bit early - then climb back into the shuttle and close its hatch.
You can watch the ceremony live here at The Flame Trench. Just click on the NASA TV image above to launch a viewer.
Endeavour arrived on Nov. 16, two days after launching from Kennedy Space Center. The spaceship is scheduled to undock from the station at 9:47 a.m. Friday and land back at the space center early Sunday afternoon.
The crews are making final checks of equipment that will be used during the shuttle's undcoking procedure and a subsequent fly-around of the station. Final pieces of equipment have been stored in the shuttle, including some of the seven liters of water samples from the water recycling system installed on the station during the mission.
Ground crews will test the samples before allowing station residents to drink the water recycled from urine and condensation.
The last "transfer" will be astronaut Greg Chamitoff, who is riding Endeavour home after living on the station since May. Sandra Magnus has replaced him as a member of Expedition 18.
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