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Spaceflight photo of the week: 31 April 2006

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03:00 2 May 2006 
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PICTURE OF THE WEEK

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© Danjaq / United Artists

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 mission and Shuttle pictured above? Tell us your thoughts and send us your own amusing caption by emailing Rob Coppinger, Flight International's space reporter.  Answers and winning caption will be published next week. Please supply a physical location in your message.
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"...99, 100, OK I'm coming to find you!"
Juan Fabrico Nombre, Barcelona, Spain

Thanks to both for supplying the captions and to all other readers who suggested an explanation.

This photo shows NASA scientist-astronaut Harrison Schmitt standing next to a huge, split lunar boulder during the third Apollo 17 extravehicular activity (EVA-3) at the Taurus-Littrow landing site. The photo was taken by Eugene Cernan, commander of the Challenger lunar module. Ronald Evans, commander of the mission, remained onboard Apollo 17 in lunar orbit while the two astronauts descended onto the Moon.
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