Olympic Torch Goes on Spacewalk

Two Russian cosmonauts took the Olympic torch on an historic spacewalk Saturday. NASA Live TV showed cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergei Ryazansky carrying the unlit  torch through the hatch of the International Space Station and into open space before the two men took turns posing with it. This is the first time an Olympic torch has been carried outside a spacecraft. It was previously taken aboard the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis for the Atlanta Olympics in 1996. The...

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