Mission

journey to home（Image credit: NASA）

Today, seven astronauts aboard the space shuttle Endeavour concentrated on the preparations for a landing on March 27, 2008.

The entire crew worked on the standard de-orbit preparations, including the crew cabin stow, the flight control system (FSC) checkout, thruster firing test, Ku-band communications antenna stow.

Two PAO events took place on FD16. All crewmembers participated in the US PAO event and answered a number of questions asked by the US media.
Leopard Eyharts solely participated in the ESA PAO event and talked about his stay on the ISS.

Astronaut Doi's on orbit activities

Astonaut Doi spent the day preparing for the reentry/landing scheduled tomorrow morning. He stowed a number of items in the crew cabin and helped astronaut Eyharts with installing his seat on Endeavour's middeck in preparation for the upcoming reentry and landing.

Before the sleep period, all the crewmembers reviewed the procedures of the de-orbit operations.

For further information, please refer to the NASA STS-123 Mission Status Report.

*All times are Japan Standard Time (JST)