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

Spaceflight picture of the week: 29 September 2006

  
  LAST WEEK'S IMAGE

Spaceflight picture of the week: 22 September 2006

" Jeannie has come a long way since the bottle."
Dan Linehan, US

Thanks to all of the readers who suggested an explanation.

Last week’s image shows a test subject rinsing her hair following a shampoo and shower in a plexiglass prototype of the Space Station microgravity whole body shower at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.  She is using the water spray nozzle to rinse her hair and a vacuum hose to remove the excess water.

Source: Flight International