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Mar 24, 2009 8:29 am US/Eastern

Shuttle Astronauts Prepare To Part Ways With ISS

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) ― The astronauts aboard the linked shuttle-station complex are getting some time off before parting company.

The crew will spend Tuesday afternoon recuperating from Monday's third and final spacewalk of Discovery's mission.

The hatches between Discovery and the international space station will be sealed Wednesday, and the shuttle will undock and head home for a Saturday landing.

During Monday's spacewalk, the two educator-astronauts, Joseph Acaba and Richard Arnold II, were unable to free a jammed equipment shelf outside the space station.

They used a hammer and pulled with all their might, but nothing worked. NASA says the repair effort will now fall to station residents or the next shuttle. The jammed storage platform is located on the left side of the space station framework that holds the solar wings. The platform is supposed to secure big spare parts that will be needed once NASA's shuttles stop flying in 2010.

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