FROM ENDEAVOUR - Monday was unpacking day for the astronauts at the international space station.

Among the top items brought from Earth: a new toilet and a contraption that purifies urine and sweat into drinkable water at the orbiting outpost.

Using a giant robot arm, Endeavour's astronauts grabbed onto a cargo container in the shuttle payload bay late Monday morning for its installation on the space station. Inside the 21-foot-long canister is almost 15,000 pounds of equipment that will allow the space station to expand from three to six crew members next year - "the goodies," according to the space station's commander, Mike Fincke.

"It's a big day in front of us," Fincke called down. "We're here to work, and this is the can-do crew."

Endeavour also delivered an exercise machine, kitchenette and two sleeping compartments.

The shuttle's crew will spend almost two weeks at the outpost, setting up the new equipment and going on four spacewalks to clean and lubricate a solar wing-rotating joint that broke down more than a year ago.

Space shuttle Endeavour linked with the international space station on Sunday, kicking off a huge home makeover that will allow twice as many astronauts to live up there beginning next year.

Commander Christopher Ferguson guided the shuttle to a smooth docking as the two spacecraft soared 212 miles above India. His ship's radar worked just fine, despite earlier trouble with the antenna.

"We understand that this house is in need of an extreme makeover and that you're the crew to do it," the space station's skipper, Mike Fincke, said as he welcomed the seven shuttle astronauts aboard.

His crewmate, Gregory Chamitoff, was especially excited to see Endeavour. He's been living on the space station for almost six months, and the shuttle is his ride home.