Olympic Torch Blasts Off for ISS Spacewalk

A rocket carrying an unlit Olympic torch has blasted off from Earth ahead of February's winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia. The Russian Soyuz-FG rocket, emblazoned with the logo of the 2014 Winter Games, launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan early Thursday with three crew members: a Russian, an American, and a Japanese citizen. They were en route to the International Space Station, where two Russian cosmonauts living at the station will take the torch on its first-ever ...

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