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Please see below for images, released by NASA, of the final spacewalk of the Shuttle era. The spacewalk was conducted by Ron Garan and Mike Fossum.

Ron Garan, secured on a restraint on the space station remote manipulator system's robotic arm (Canadarm2), carrying a faulty pump module which will be returned to Earth by the Space Shuttle Atlantis (Credit: NASA)

Mike Fossum taking a picture during the spacewalk, Space Shuttle Atlantis can be seen in the background (Credit: NASA)

A view of the Cupola on the ISS, looking closely you can even see the faces of several of the Atlantis STS-135 and Expedition 28 crewmembers looking out of the windows (Credit: NASA)

With his feet secured on a restraint on Canadarm2, Mike Fossum holds the Robotics Refueling Mission payload. The failed pump module is with DEXTRE in the upper left corner of the photo. The blue color on the space station module is a reflection from the blue of planet Earth (Credit: NASA)

A close-up view of Mike Fossum during the final EVA of the shuttle era (Credit: NASA)

With his feet secured on a restraint on the space station remote manipulator system's robotic arm Canadarm2, Mike Fossum holds the Robotics Refueling Mission payload, an experiment which will test in-flight refueling with the DEXTRE robot. Fossum and Ron Garan installed the experiment during the spacewalk (Credit: NASA)