Chkalovsky airfield outside Moscow to Baikonur crew flew to the ISS Expedition 38, which will deliver into orbit the Olympic flame. Start of the “Union” with the astronauts and the lamps of fire is scheduled for November 7. It is known that the torch will be even in the logo of the crew, Olympic logo also decorates the rocket and spacecraft, “Vesti”.
Basically crew, who will deliver to the ISS the Olympic torch, the three astronauts: Japanese Koichi Wakata, the American Richard Mastracchio and Russian Mikhail Tyurin, the commander of the ship.
However, the flare in the two planes, which will take the crew at Baikonur, no. Symbol of the Olympic Games arrive in Kazakhstan later.
Torch into orbit crew Mikhail Tyurin will deliver on November 7 at the Soyuz TMA-11, which was decorated with symbols of the upcoming games – wrapped up the Olympic quilt. On board the ISS will not light the torch, but without the fire will carry it on all segments of the station. Then cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazan, which are already on the ISS, will take with him into space. Return to earth the torch on November 11 with a crew of Fyodor Yurchikhin.
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