Spaceflight picture of the week: 2 February 2007

Space flight picture of the week

LAST WEEK'S IMAGE

"Hope those spacesuits get here before the PETA people see us in these hats!" Paul E. Vondra, in Bellevue, US "Are we sure it should be pointing that way?" Matthew Weston in Melbourne, Australia
Thanks to all of the readers who suggested an explanation. Last week’s picture shows the crew of the Soyuz T-15. Mission commander Colonel Leonid Denishovich Kizim, and flight engineer Vladimir Alexeyevich Solovyov in the Baikonur space port in Kazakhstan in March 1986. The Soyuz-15 was the first expedition to Mir, launching on 13 March 1986. The crew then visited Salyut 7 space station before returning to Mir, and then finally landing on 16 July 1986.

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

"Hope those spacesuits get here before the PETA people see us in these hats!"
Paul E. Vondra, in Bellevue, US
"Are we sure it should be pointing that way?"
Matthew Weston in Melbourne, Australia
Thanks to all of the readers who suggested an explanation.
Last week’s picture shows the crew of the Soyuz T-15. Mission commander Colonel Leonid Denishovich Kizim, and flight engineer Vladimir Alexeyevich Solovyov in the Baikonur space port in Kazakhstan in March 1986. The Soyuz-15 was the first expedition to Mir, launching on 13 March 1986. The crew then visited Salyut 7 space station before returning to Mir, and then finally landing on 16 July 1986.

Source: FlightGlobal.com