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Shuttle Endeavour has finally started its journey back home. It pulled away from the International Space Station on Monday after 12 days of hard work.

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Shuttle Endeavour has finally started its journey back home. It pulled away from the International Space Station on Monday after 12 days of hard work.

The crew has to undertake a two-day journey before landing back on Earth on Wednesday evening at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The shuttle had left the Space Center on March 11.

"In my mind, in my view, it's been an extraordinary mission," said LeRoy Cain, chairman of the mission management team. "It's just been a textbook mission up and down the line in every way that I look at it."

This crew had many objectives, out of which one was to assemble Canadian-built robotic maintenance man, Dextre. Its assembly was successfully completed by the third spacewalk.

The fourth spacewalk was focused on carrying out some tests to check a method for repairing damaged shuttle thermal tiles.

In the fifth walk, an extension sensor-studded boom was used to scan Endeavour's heat shield to ensure it is safe for next week's re-entry through the Earth's atmosphere.

It is a routine process followed by every shuttle crew that's flown since the Columbia disaster. This shield protects the ship from the large amount of heat, which is produced when the shuttle enters the earth atmosphere and has the potential of damaging it.

Later, the boom was docked to the station for use by the nest shuttle Discovery as it won’t be having enough space for it. Discovery, scheduled to fly in May this year, is planned to carry the enormous Japanese lab Kibo.

During their stay at the station, the seven shuttle astronauts and the three-member station crew attached the first piece of a Japanese laboratory to the station.

The three-piece lab, called Kibo or "hope," is Japan's main contribution to the station and will be its largest science facility when completed next year.

"At this moment, the people in Japan are very excited, about how module was attached to the space station," said Japanese astronaut Takao Doi. "It was a great moment and it's going to open up a new era for Japan in the space program."

The shuttle will also bring back French astronaut Leopold Eyharts, who arrived at the space station in early February. Astronaut Garrett Reisman, who flew in this shuttle, will remain there until June.

All the crew members patted each other and appreciated each other’s work before they left.

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