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This is a list of featured pictures from the Spaceflight portal, listed in chronological order.

11 January 2006
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
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
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
In 1993, STS-61 astronauts installed corrective optics during Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 1.

24 September 2007
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.