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After finishing interviews with several media outlets, Endeavour astronauts retired to the Harmony module for Thanksgiving dinner with three International Space Station crew members.
"It's actually warming up in the oven," mission commander Chris Ferguson told a TV station in his hometown of Philadelphia. "We got the oven all started, and we had our thermo-stabilized turkey all ready to go in. But we do have all the trimmings today. We have cornbread stuffing, turkey, candied yams, beans - we have it all."
Hot water will added to the stuffing and a dehydrated casserole of beans and mushrooms. The yams and a cran-apple desert come wrapped in ready-to-eat foil packages. The main course of irradiated turkey slices resemble what is on most Americans' plates today.
The two crews only have about four hours left together. A farewell ceremony is planned just before 6 p.m., as the seven shuttle astronauts prepare to return to their vehicle and close the hatch behind them for the trip home.
Endeavour is scheduled to depart the station Friday morning. Pilot Eric Boe will execute a final fly-around of the outpost as part of final inspections of heat shields on the orbiter's wing edges and nose cap. Ferguson said his crew would end a 13-day stay at the station satisfied that all the STS-126 mission's objectives have been accomplished.
"I'd like to think that we achieved our goals and we're ready to move on," he said.
Endeavour launched Nov. 14 from Kennedy Space Center, and is scheduled to land there Sunday at 1:18 p.m.
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