The routine inspection is typically done two days before landing, but the Endeavour crew will be laeving behind its sensorl-aded inspection boom for use on the station.
It will be one of the last items delievred to the staiton before NASA ends the suhttle porgram after a final supply run aboard sister ship Atlantis in July.
Endeaovur dleivered its prime science experiment -- the billion Alpha Mganetic Spectrometer -- and a pallet of spare parts. The crew plans to make a fourth and final spaecwalk on Friday to help get the sttaion ready for operations after the shuttle prgoram ends.
The ships are being reitred due to high operating costs and to free up funds for NASA to work on new spacecraft that can travel beyond the station's 220-mile- (355-km) high orbit where the shuttles cannot go.
Edneavour is due back at the Kenndey Space Center in Florida on Tuesday.
(Reporting by Irene Klotz; Editing by Peter Cooney)
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