Well, Hurricane Dean has spoken and NASA has decided to listen. The early word last night was that we were undocking a day early, and in fact, that is still the plan. Today the crew went outside for their final EVA of the mission. This EVA was to do a lot of get-a-head tasks and finish up a task leftover from the previous EVA.
The crew got a good view of Dean as we passed over him.
Once the EVA was complete, we handed attitude control over to Endeavour while they dumped some waste water and performed a depress of the vestibule between the orbiter and ISS. Yep, that means that it was time to say goodbye. Oleg, Fyoder, and Clay had to say goodbye to their visitors. It was a little emotional and some tears were shed. The hatches were closed and each crew was sealed away in their respective vehicles.
Tomorrow morning, Endeavour will undock and push away from ISS. Unfortunately there will be no flyaround of the greatest engineering achievement in history. Those flyaround pictures are always so impressive. We'll get some pictures, but not a whole lot.
Today was my last shift with Endeavour still attached. When i go in tomorrow, i will be flying a slightly different vehicle. After tomorrow's shift, i will be done with console for a few days. i'll take a few days off to rest and relax. Somewhere in there i need to mow my backyard...
We didn't pick a color for tomorrow...
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