Spaceflight picture of the week: 1 June 2007

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.

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Space flight picture of the week

LAST WEEK'S IMAGE

Thanks to all of the readers who suggested an explanation.
Last week's picture shows two citizens of the Arab Republic of Syria completing a training course at the Yury Gagarin Cosmonauts' Training Centre in preparation for the joint Soviet - Syrian space mission. July 1987..

Space flight picture of the week

LAST WEEK'S IMAGE


Thanks to all of the readers who suggested an explanation. Last week's picture shows two citizens of the Arab Republic of Syria completing a training course at the Yury Gagarin Cosmonauts' Training Centre in preparation for the joint Soviet - Syrian space mission. July 1987..

Source: Flight International