This is a list of featured pictures from the Spaceflight portal, listed in chronological order.
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11 January 2006 edit
Featured Picture - Wednesday 11th January 2006 until Friday 10th March 2006:
The Saturn V launched day or night, in foul weather or fair, at the appropriate time to reach its destination, as shown in this montage of all launches
10 March 2006 edit
Featured Picture - 10 March 2006 until 26 April 2007
Launch of the last Saturn V rocket (Actually a Saturn INT-21) carrying the Skylab space station into orbit.
26 April 2007 edit
Soyuz launch vehicle rocket engines in a processing hangar at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The rocket is assembled horizontally, allowing this view which clearly shows the rocket engine nozzles. Based on the R-7 design, the Soyuz first stage consists of four liquid booster rockets strapped to the second stage core. Each booster has a single rocket motor with four primary combustion chambers and two vernier combustion chambers, which all share a single set of turbopumps.
3 June 2007 edit
In 1993, STS-61 astronauts installed corrective optics during Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 1.
24 September 2007 edit
On 2006-09-18 the Soyuz TMA-9 spacecraft launched atop a Soyuz-FG rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, carrying a new crew to the International Space Station.
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