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November 07, 2013

Russia launches Sochi Olympic torch into space
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) Nov 07, 2013
Russia on Thursday launched into space a trio of Russian, Japanese and US astronauts carrying an unlit Olympic torch that will for the first time be taken on a spacewalk to mark the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi. The Soyuz-FG rocket and Soyuz-TMA capsule, emblazoned with the symbols of the Sochi Games and the Olympic rings, blasted off from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for the International Space Station (ISS) at 8:14 am Moscow time (0414 GMT). The Soyuz-TMA capsule carrying NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio, Russia's Mikhail Tyurin and Japan's Koichi Wakata then docked with the ISS slightly ahead of schedule after four orbits of the Earth just over six hours later, the Russian space agency Roscomos said. ... read more

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