This week's picture is from a series of unique pictures from the Flight International spaceflight archive, which goes back to the very beginning of the space age.

Are you able to tell us the event pictured below? What is the mission? Tell us your thoughts and send us your own amusing caption by emailing Kelley Malcher, Flight's webmaster.  Answers and winning caption will be published next week. Please supply a physical location in your message.

 

  
  Space flight picture of the week

Spaceflight pic 19 dec 2006

  
  LAST WEEK'S IMAGE

spaceflight pic

 

Thanks to Marc Passy and Frank Fischer who correctly identified that last week’s image shows the core module os Mir Space station module being inspected, February 1986

Source: FlightGlobal.com