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NASA OKs Endeavour to Return to Earth
During a question-and-answer session with Canadian children, Kelly explained that the hurricane wasn't affecting landing preparations in orbit. "Even though we undocked a day early," he said, "we might not have to get home on Tuesday as urgently as we did before."
Teacher-astronaut Barbara Morgan took part in the education session, along with Canadian astronaut Dave Williams, who performed three spacewalks to install new space station parts.
  This image provided by NASA on Sunday, Aug. 19, 2007, shows Canadian astronaut Dave Williams during the final of four space walks on the international space station, Saturday, Aug. 18. Astronauts aboard the shuttle Endeavour and the international space station on Saturday embarked on the last spacewalk of their joint mission, an outing that was scaled back because of approaching Hurricane Dean. (AP Photo/NASA) (AP) 
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Morgan _ who was the backup for Christa McAuliffe, who died in the 1986 Challenger disaster _ left two mini-greenhouses at the space station. Station resident Clay Anderson will grow basil seeds in them; youngsters will do the same on Earth using the 10 million basil seeds that Morgan carried into space.
"I'm hoping to keep these bad boys (the seeds) going for quite a while if I can," Anderson told Mission Control.
He jokingly added: "Tell Miss Morgan that I'm going to write 100 times on the side of the water delivery system, 'I will not pull the plugs too quickly, I will not pull the plugs too quickly.' "
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Associated Press Writer Liz Austin Peterson in Houston contributed to this report.
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