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PICTURE OF THE WEEK


Spaceflight picture of the week 2June 2006 W445V2

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 above? 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.
LAST WEEK'S PICTURE

Space Flight picture of the week 260506 W445

“Oh my god! They’re undressed! Hey guys, could you please...the TV is here!”
Robert Spieler, Klagenfurt, Austria

“I've got the beach balls, who's got the barbeque?”

“Houston, we are apparently under investigation or attack by extraterrestrial life forms.  They are approximately humanoid with rubbery skins...”
Brett Davidson, Wellington, New Zealand.

Thanks to you for supplying the captions.  Thanks too to all other readers who suggested an explanation.

Last week's photo shows the Apollo Soyuz test project capsule, which had no official NASA number designation, before its retrieval from the water by the USS New Orleans on 25 July 1975. US Navy frogmen can be seen climbing aboard the Apollo spacecraft attaching floatation collars and preparing the craft for the astronauts' exit

 

Source: Flight International