Friday, space shuttle Endeavour departed from NASA’s International Space Station (ISS), taking its crew of astronauts back to Earth, after the latter performed repairs and remodeling on the living quarters on the ISS in order to make them suitable to host 6 residents.

Endeavour left its docking port on the ISS at 9:48 a.m. EST, with the mission to give the ISS a make-over having been accomplished. The station is now almost ready to welcome another three residents, now featuring two new bedrooms, a second toilet, a water recycling system and a first refrigerator.

The shuttle also brought a new resident to the ISS to replace crew member Greg Chamitoff, a 46-year-old aeronautical engineer. Sandra Magnus, a 44-year-old expert in material science and engineering, whose flight with the Endeavour was her first one into outer-space, will be joining station commander Mike Finke and Russian flight engineer Yuri Lonchakov.

Chamitoff, who stated he was thrilled to return home to his wife and two children, has spent six months on the ISS.

Endeavour astronauts also performed four spacewalks during the shuttle’s 15-days mission, in order to unjam a massive joint that is supposed to render the power-generating solar wings on the space station's right side to face the sun. The jammed joint caused the amount of energy the wings produced to decrease, since the wings could no longer rotate towards the sun.

The space shuttle is scheduled to land at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 1:18 p.m. EST on Sunday.