Olympic Torch goes to open space
ASTANA. June 24. KAZINFORM — SochiOlympic Games 2014 torch will be delivered to the International Space Station (ISS) after which it will for the fisrt time go to outer space, said "R-Sport"agency.
The torch delivery to ISS is scheduled for November 2013 aboard manned spacecraft "Soyuz TMA-11M", Vesti.kz reports.
Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazansky, Russian cosmonauts, will take the torch to open space and Fyodor Yurchikhin, a member of current ISS crew will bring it back to Earth.
Dmitry Chernyshenko, President of "Sochi-2014" Organizing Committee, announced that main fire of the Olympic Games in Sochi 2014 will be lit from the torch which would be taken to cosmos. "It was one of our secrets, but now we would like to share it with you", announced D.Chernyshenko.
Olympic torch route kicks off in October 15, 2013 and it will last for 133 days. During this time the torch will be carried by 14,000 people who will visit all the regions of Russia and cover a total of about 65,000 kilometers. Moreover, Olympic torchlight is planned to be delivered to the North Pole.