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 picture of the week: 10 Nov 2006

  
  LAST WEEK'S IMAGE

spaceflight picture of the week: 3 Nov 2006

 

Thanks to everybody who suggested an explanation for last week’s image.  It shows China 20, which was the country's first recoverable science satellite.  The satellite was launched on a Long March 2 from Juiquan on 5 August 1970 and returned 10 August 1970.

Source: FlightGlobal.com