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.
Moonraker © 1979 Danjaq / United Artists. All rights reserved
Thanks to you for supplying the captions and to Correctly guessed by:Giancarlo Lalsingh from Trinidad & Tobago; Salina Chan from Singapore and Rolf Schmidt from Hamm, Germany who also got the mission right. Thanks too to all other readers who suggested an explanation. Last week's photo shows the fictional space shuttle Moonraker 6 from the 1979 James Bond Movie Moonraker, staring Roger Moore. The shuttle was to be launched secretly from inside a silo in the Amazon jungle to a space station. The payload included the “best and the brightest of humanity”, so they would survive the orchid-based nerve gas attack on Earth. The production designer was Ken Adam.Picture courtesy of EON Productions.