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

spaceflight pic of the week 20 oct 2006

  
  LAST WEEK'S IMAGE

spaceflight pic of week 13 Oct 2006

 

Thanks to all of the readers who suggested an explanation, Georges Garbarino from Brussels was the only person to correctly identify the Astronauts.

Last week’s image shows left to right, M.Scott Carpenter, L.Gordon Cooper, John H. Glenn Jr, Virgil I. Grissom, Walter Schirra, Alan B. Shepherd Jr, and Donald K. Slayton.  NASA Mercury Seven astronauts

Source: FlightGlobal.com