Halfway Through Their 16 Day Mission

The crews of space shuttle Endeavour and the International Space Station had a day off to rest in preparation of robotics operations to berth the Japanese experiment carrier in the shuttle's payload bay Sunday and the fifth and final planned spacewalk of the mission on Monday.

Endeavour Commander Mark Polansky, Pilot Doug Hurley and Mission Specialists Chris Cassidy, Julie Payette, Tom Marshburn and Dave Wolf took some time out of their time off, however, to answer reporters' questions from WISH-TV in Indianapolis, CBS News and WREG-TV in Memphis.

Expedition 20 Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineers Mike Barratt, Tim Kopra, Roman Romanenko, Bob Thirsk and Frank De Winne have a standard weekend schedule that includes exercise, routine station housekeeping and time off.

The 13-member combined crew of space shuttle Endeavour and the International Space Station downlink a "crew choice" presentation  titled "The Partnership of the International Space Station." NASA Television will air it live.

Spacewalkers Cassidy and Marshburn completed the final four battery swaps for the station's Port 6 truss segment Friday, and those batteries are holding power. Later in the day, the new batteries were integrated into the station's power grid.

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