The Discovery astronauts packed up today, moving equipment back to the shuttle in preparation for closing hatches between the orbiter and the international space station this afternoon. If all goes well, Discovery will undock from the lab complex early Monday, setting the stage for landing Wednesday to close out a dramatic space station assembly mission.

In overnight messages to the crew, flight controllers offered congratulations for Saturday's successful spacewalk by Scott Parazynski and Doug Wheelock to repair a damaged space station solar blanket, an improvised fix that was needed to keep station assembly on track.

"Congratulations!!! Yesterday "Too Tall" finally found his niche in the cosmos!!!" controllers said, referring to Parazynski.

"Wow!!! Yesterday was an absolutely awesome day! But now you have done it," they said. "This flight has drained our bucket of superlative adjectives absolutely dry. Therefore, it is time for you to think about coming home!"

NASA's mission management team chimed in as well, saying "the entire team was awed by the outstanding work that you performed to make EVA 4 a great success."

"The extended team, both on-orbit and on the ground, deserves congratulations and it is a good day to be a part of the extended NASA family," the team said in the crew's morning "execute package" of instructions and timeline revisions. "The MMT briefly reviewed the status and health of the orbiter, which continues to perform very well. The remaining timeline was discussed at a high level, and the MMT is beginning to turn its attention to undocking, late inspection, and end-of-mission."

Parazynski now ranks fifth in the world for cumulative spacewalk time with 47 hours and five minutes over seven EVAs. Spacewalk planners in mission control found a few superlatives of their own.

"What an AWESOME, history-making EVA!" they said in the execute package. "This one will go down as one of our biggest successes in EVA history. Words can not express how proud you made everyone with the execution by the entire team. Scott, what a way to add to an already impressive EVA career! The summit of Everest will have a hard time competing with the view from the boom."

The astronauts will enjoy a bit of off-duty time this morning before gathering in the space station's Destiny laboratory module for a brief farewell ceremony at 1:28 p.m., about 20 minutes before hatches will be closed between the orbiter and the lab complex.

Astronaut Dan Tani, who hitched a ride to the station aboard Discovery, will remain on the station with Expedition 16 commander Peggy Whitson and Yuri Malenchenko. The man Tani replaced - astronaut Clay Anderson - will return to Earth aboard Discovery, along with Parazynski, Wheelock, commander Pam Melroy, pilot George Zamka, flight engineer Stephanie Wilson and Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli.

Undocking is planned for 5:32 a.m. Monday, followed by a final inspection of the shuttle's nose cap and wing leading edge panels. A laser scanner and cameras on the end of Discovery's heat shield inspection boom, used in the solar array repair work Saturday, will be used to look for any signs of impact damage from space debris or micrometeoroids.

During the solar array repair spacewalk, the boom's instruments were unpowered for about nine hours. Overnight tests showed the laser scanner remains fully functional and tests are planned later today to check out the camera system.

Here is an updated timeline of today's activity (in EST and mission elapsed time; includes revision N of the NASA television schedule):

EST........DD...HH...MM...EVENT

11/04/07
02:08 AM...11...14...30...STS/ISS crew wakeup
03:08 AM...11...16...30...ISS daily planning conference
03:38 AM...11...17...00...Logistics transfers
03:53 AM...11...17...15...Oxygen system teardown
04:08 AM...11...17...30...Spacesuits prepped for move to shuttle
04:23 AM...11...17...45...Shuttle docking port (PMA-2) ground strap
04:58 AM...11...18...20...Logistics transfers
05:03 AM...11...18...25...Italian media event
05:23 AM...11...18...45...Heat shield boom (OBSS) sensor checkout
06:08 AM...11...19...30...Spacesuits moved to shuttle
07:53 AM...11...21...15...Lab forward CPA installation
08:08 AM...11...21...30...Crew meal
09:08 AM...11...22...30...Shuttle crew off duty
09:13 AM...11...22...35...ISS: CBCS target installation
09:43 AM...11...23...05...ISS: Lab hatch thermal cover installation
11:30 AM...12...00...52...Mission status briefing on NASA TV
12:58 PM...12...02...20...PMA-2 berthing mechanism bolts
01:28 PM...12...02...50...Farewell ceremony
01:43 PM...12...03...05...Hatch closed
01:43 PM...12...03...05...Rendezvous tools checkout
02:23 PM...12...03...45...Orbiter docking system leak check
04:43 PM...12...06...05...Crew choice downlink
05:08 PM...12...06...30...ISS crew sleep begins
06:08 PM...12...07...30...STS crew sleep begins
07:00 PM...12...08...22...Daily video highlights reel on NASA TV
10:00 PM...12...11...22...Flight director update on NASA TV

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VIDEO: DOUG WHEELOCK EMERGES FROM AIRLOCK FOR EVA PLAY
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VIDEO: BRIEFING ON LAUNCH IMAGERY AND TANK'S PERFORMANCE PLAY
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