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 Rob Coppinger, Flight International's space reporter.  Answers and winning caption will be published next week. Please supply a physical location in your message.

 

PICTURE OF THE WEEK 

 spaceflight picture of the week 11 August 2006

 LAST WEEK'S PICTURE

 spaceflight pic of the week: 4 August 2006


"OK, George, I thought you wrote the mad-robot code?"
Marc Passy, Illinois, US

Thanks to all of the readers who suggested an explanation this week.   Congratulations to Marc Passy in Illinios, US; Martin Dawson in York, UK; Michel Lalibertéin in Montréal, Canada; and Don Jennings in Florida, US  for correctly identifying the image.

Last week’s image shows an Extra Vehicular Activity rescue robot being tested on a precision air bearing table.  The robot was proposed in the 1980’s for the then Freedom Space Station which is now known as the International Station.

 

Source: Flight International

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