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Mission Control Center (Korolev, Moscow region), November 9 – RIA Novosti. The main symbol of the Olympic Games – the Olympic Torch – first traveled to outer space, where he was carried on board the ISS Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergei Ryazan.
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The Olympic Torch Relay, which takes place in Russia before the Winter Olympics in Sochi, become the most ambitious relay race with the appearance of this tradition in 1930. And the most impressive moment it can be considered as the torch out into space.
lap around the ISS
Olympic symbol – for the sake of security unlit – delivered to the ISS by the “Soyuz TMA-11M” members of the new expedition, Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin, NASA astronaut Richard Mastracchio and Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata. It Tyurin made torch to the station.
Inside the ISS, in turn, held a kind of stage the Olympic torch relay.
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“The torch was in the hands of each member of the crew of the ISS, it carried on all interior rooms station,” – said the ISS commander Fyodor Yurchikhin.
first torch carried by the station Koichi Wakata, after he got to the Italian Luca Parmitano, then it was carrying astronaut Michael Hopkins, then picked up the torch of the only lady at the station Karen Nyberg, who handed it to his colleague Richard Mastracchio. Rick, in turn, handed the Olympic symbol Tyurin, down the line it got Ryazan Sergei and Oleg Kotov. The last torch carried by ISS Jurchihin.
“I hung it in the Russian segment of the place of honor,” – said the commander.
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in outer space and back
Saturday night, Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazan carried the torch for the first time in the open space. They spent in space stage of the relay, passing the Olympic symbol to each other, and then shot each other with the help of video cameras.
Cats, in particular, welcomed the earthlings, waving a torch, and then took it into his other hand and said that the visibility is fine – a magnificent view of the Earth.
Torch during the release was secured special application file with a carabiner at the end, by which the symbol is attached to the handlebars, located on the outer surface of the station. This is to ensure that the astronauts accidentally missed a torch into space. Remaining on board the ISS crew filmed them through the windows.
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Olympic torch for the first time in the history carried into space. Archive photo
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Kotov and Ryazan returned symbol of the 2014 Olympics open space on the ISS and fixed it in the docking module “Pirs”, and then went back to work – a six-hour program on leaving, they had to rearrange the site “anchor” to the new location, remove the shipping bracket fixing the drive and take a number of other works. However, to fully implement the program failed. After midnight, the space torchbearers returned to the station and closed the hatches.
Back on Earth
deliver the torch to Earth cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin November 11.
When the hatch
SpK vehicle “Soyuz TMA-09M” will open, Jurchihin pass the torch to representatives of the organizing committee of the Olympic Games in Sochi.
former head of Roscosmos, Vladimir Popovkin (June 24, 2013): “Sending the torch Olympic torch into space – an unprecedented event in the history of the Olympic Movement as well as the global astronautics. His on-orbit delivery and take-out into space, Russian cosmonauts will become a new bright page in the annals of space “.
In 1928, the power company employee Amsterdam lit the first Olympic flame in the bowl of Marathon Tower Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam and since this ritual is an essential attribute of the modern Olympic Games. In 1968, in Mexico City, the Mexican champion of the country runner in the hurdles Queta Basilio became the first woman to lit the Olympic flame. In 2004, she again took part in the Olympic relay. On the other torchbearers – Help for RIA Novosti >>
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