Astronauts sail past halfway point of long flight (AP)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The astronauts on the next-to-last expanse shuttle flight have hit the halfway saucer of their 16-day mission.
Endeavour's six astronauts took it easy Tuesday, their ordinal day in orbit. They said goodbye weekday to three colleagues who landed safely in Kazakhstan aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule.
Now there are meet figure grouping aboard the shuttle-station complex.
In a program of TV interviews weekday morning, the astronauts said they module be compassionate when Endeavour's final travel comes to an end on June 1. Spaceman Pope Chamitoff says the shuttle looks same it belongs "right here" at the International Space Station.
Two of the gathering module stake back discover Wednesday for the ordinal spacewalk of the mission.
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