Florida ? With the last bit of shuttle imagery analyzed, NASA cleared Endeavour on Monday for its return to Earth, bringing the spaceship home a day early because of hurricane worries that later evaporated.

Endeavour is aiming for a touchdown early this afternoon, as long as the crosswind at the landing strip isn’t too strong, the main weather concern.

“Hopefully, we’ll have acceptable weather and it will be a really good day,” commander Scott Kelly radioed from orbit.

Mission managers gave Kelly the go-ahead after engineers finished evaluating the latest laser images of the shuttle’s wings and nose and concluded there were no holes or cracks from micrometeorites or space junk.