This weeks offering from the Flight International space archives

"Soyuz TM-10 commander Gennadi Manakov (left) and flight engineer Gennadi Strekalov (second right) check out the Orlan manned manoeuvring unit at the Yuri Gagarin Space training Centre before launching on 1 August 1990 to the Soviet Union’s Mir space station"

After some time away in orbit spaceflight image of the week returns with this offering from the Flight International archive

Congratulations rapier you are exactly right it is the Ariane 5 EAP/EPC mock-up

This weeks offering from the Flight International Space Archive

"This image shows the Soyuz T-11 crew, (L-R) flight engineer Gennady Strekalov, India's Rakesh Sharma and commander Yuri Malyskev, walking past a Samarra Space Center Soyuz rocket before their 3 April 1984 flight"

This weeks selection from the Flight International Space Archive

"This image shows a Boeing concept for the interior of a space station's operations centre. Split in half, the module in its left segment has the command and control center, lavatory, shower, dressing room, exercise and recreation area, private sleeping quarters with door closed, observation...

This weeks selection from the Flight International space archives

"This image shows the core segment of the European Space Agency's manned Spacelab laboratory flight unit with the subfloor for the components of the environmental control and life support system. The flight unit, carried onboard NASA's Space Shuttle, was built by the Spacelab consortium...