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 picture of the week: 3 Nov 2006

  
  LAST WEEK'S IMAGE

Spaceflight picture of the week: 27 October 2006


"That’ll be $6.14, Mr. Shepard. Please pull forward to the next window"
Rob Huelga

 

Thanks to everybody who suggested an explanation for last week’s image.  Frank Fischer in Braunschweig, Germany, correctly identified the image showing the Freedom -7 capsule on the Redstone launcher, for the first suborbital flight by Alan B Shepard, which marked the first US manned spaceflight.

Source: Flight International

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