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

Spacefight pic of week 5 Jan 07

  
  LAST WEEK'S IMAGE

Spaceflight pic 19 dec 2006

"I’d say, Chuck, this doggarned can carrier ain’t the Mississipi Queen, but a job is a job."
Michel Laliberté in Montréal

 

" A riverboat casino with a space motif."

Paul E. Vondra

Thanks to all of the readers who suggested an explanation.

Last week’s image shows STS-2’s external tank being transported to Kennedy Space Center in 1981

Source: FlightGlobal.com