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 9 feb 2007

  
  LAST WEEK'S IMAGE

spaceflight pic 2 Feb 2007

 

Thanks to all of the readers who suggested an explanation.

Last week's picture shows American, Russian, Ukrainian and Norwegian join venture Sea Launch's inaugural launch on 27 March 1999. The rocket is a Ukrainian Zenit-3SL.

Source: FlightGlobal.com