The last person spacewalked in a space shuttle payload bay today

Final spacewalk in the space shuttle era is complete

Today's spacewalk was the 160th devoted to space station assembly and maintenance, the ninth so far this year, the seventh for Fossum and the fourth for Garan. Total space station EVA time now stands at 1,009 hours and nine minutes, or 42 days. Fossum, with 48 hours and 32 minutes of EVA time, moves up to seventh on the list of most experienced spacewalkers while Garan's total increases to 27 hours and three minutes.

Because Atlantis was launched with a reduced crew of four to accommodate possible rescue scenarios, today's spacewalk was carried out by station flight engineers Garan and Fossum to reduce training time for the shuttle crew. As such, the EVA was considered an Expedition 28 spacewalk, but it was the final outing by any astronauts with a space shuttle in orbit.