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06-13-2008, 05:41 PM
Space shuttle Discovery's astronauts are completing their last full day in space and making preparations for landing Saturday at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla. The astronauts are scheduled to go to sleep at 6:32 p.m. EDT. On Saturday, they awake at 2:32 a.m., close Discovery's payload bay doors at 7:30 a.m. and perform the deorbit burn at 10:10 a.m. Landing is planned for 11:15 a.m. Should it be required, there is a second landing opportunity at Kennedy on Saturday. The deorbit burn would occur at 11:46 a.m. and landing at 12:50 p.m.