PICTURE OF THE WEEK
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SPACEFLIGHT PICTURE OF THE WEEK 20/04/2006
Are you able to tell us the mission and astronaut pictured above? 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
Spaceflight photo of the week 11 April 2006


"Hand me a cold one, they're on the bottom shelf"
Peter Grimes, Lincoln Rhode Island, USA
"I've got the beer. Ya got the sleeping bags tied on OK?"
Carrie Charney, Bardonia, New York, USA

Thanks to both for supplying the captions and to all other readers who suggested an explanation. Peter also guessed correctly that this is from the Hubble telescope servicing mission.

This photo shows astronauts Thomas Akers (left) and Kathryn C. Thornton working to install the new optical system (called COSTAR - Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement) into NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) during an extravehicular activity on STS-61, the first Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission.

This shot also appeared in the Lockheed Martin and Smithsonian Institute-sponsored IMAX motion picture, Destiny in Space.

Source: Flight International

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