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The STS-130 astronauts were to fly to Kennedy late Tuesday in Shuttle Training Aircraft. NASA TV is to telecast their arrival live on the Web about 10:30 p.m. EST at www.nasa.gov/ntv.

Liftoff of Endeavour on its mission to the International Space Station is set for Sunday at 4:39 a.m. EST, with the launch countdown to begin at 2 a.m. Thursday.

STS-130 will be commanded by astronaut George Zamka, with Terry Virts serving as the pilot. NASA said the mission's specialists will be astronauts Nicholas Patrick, Robert Behnken, Stephen Robinson and Kathryn Hire. Virts will be making his first trip into space.

Endeavour and its crew will deliver a third connecting module to the space station -- the Italian-built Tranquility node -- and a seven-windowed cupola that will be used as a control room for robotics. The mission will feature three spacewalks.

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