Space Relay: Olympic Torch Carried On Spacewalk Outside ISS
Space Relay: Olympic torch carried on spacewalk outside ISS
Photo Credit jpeg·the international space station on saturday nov 9 2013 nasa
The Sochi 2014 Olympic Torch will return to Earth with cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin who is currently based on the ISS. While based on the ISS in 2007, he and his colleague Oleg Kotov supported the Olympic bid presentation that was made in Guatemala following which Sochi was elected as the host city of the 2014 Olympic Winter Games.
The President of the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee, Dmitry Chernyshenko, noted:
“Nobody has done this before. The spacewalk by two Russian cosmonauts with the Sochi 2014 Olympic torch will be an historic moment in the history of the Olympic Torch Relay. I want to thank the Federal Space Agency for its support which will enable us to take the Sochi 2014 Olympic Torch Relay to the final frontier”.
The head of Roscosmos, Vladimir Popovkin, said:
“Conducting a spacewalk with the Olympic torch is an unprecedented event in the history of the Olympic movement and the world of Astronautics. Its in-orbit delivery and the spacewalk by Russian cosmonauts will be a bright new page in space history. Let me thank the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee for the selection of the Federal Space Agency as an Honorary Partner of the Sochi 2014 Olympic Torch Relay”.
Published on Nov 9, 2013
Russian cosmonauts have taken the Olympic torch for the Sochi 2014 Winter Games out for its first-ever spacewalk on Saturday. The “cosmic” torch will be the one to light the Olympic flame in February.
Sochi 2014 Torch Delivered To International Space Station
Published on Nov 7, 2013
A multi-national crew of a Soyuz spacecraft has brought the Sochi 2014 Olympic torch on-board the International Space Station. Soon, the Olympic flame will be taken into open space for the first time in history.
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