Last NASA shuttle crew almost done packing for this week?s space station departure, ride home

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. ? The astronauts making NASA?s last shuttle flight are almost done packing up their gigantic suitcase for the ride home.

The 10 space travelers spent Sunday putting some final items in Raffaello, the Italian-made cargo canister that?s the size of a bus. The compartment will be moved from the International Space Station back onto space shuttle Atlantis early Monday. It carried up tons of food, supplies and other household goods. And it will return with dozens of bundles of trash and discarded equipment.

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