After some time away in orbit spaceflight image of the week returns with this offering from the Flight International archive
Soviet technicians and cosmonauts inspect the SPK (Sredstvo Peredvizheniya Kosmonavta) "Ikar" MMU during a training session before Soyuz TM-8 mission to Mir Space Station.
SPK/Orlan Spacesuit combination
The SPK unit, after tethered tests by cosmonauts Alexander Alexandrovich Serebrov and Alexander Stepanovich Viktorenko, respectively on February 1 and 5, 1990, was "parked" outside the airlock of Kvant-2 (far left) in order to save room.
"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"
