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Olympic Torch Blasts Into Space

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A rocket carrying a Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft with an unlit Olympic torch successfully blasted off from Kazakhstan's Baikonur cosmodrome on Thursday. 07.11.2013, Sputnik International

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Olympic Torch Blasts Into Space

10:24 GMT 07.11.2013

A rocket carrying a Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft with an unlit Olympic torch successfully blasted off from Kazakhstan's Baikonur cosmodrome on Thursday.

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A rocket carrying a Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft with an unlit Olympic torch successfully blasted off from Kazakhstan's Baikonur cosmodrome on Thursday.

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The crew consists of Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin, NASA’s Richard Mastracchio and Koichi Wakata of Japan.

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On November 9, the torch is expected to be taken on a brief spacewalk.

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The main purpose of the spacewalk will be to prepare the station for the arrival of a Russian Multi-Purpose Laboratory Module.

© RIA Novosti . Anton Denisov / Go to the mediabankAfter the torch returns to Earth on November 11 it will be taken to the Olympic host city of Sochi and used to light the cauldron at the opening ceremony on February 7.

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After the torch returns to Earth on November 11 it will be taken to the Olympic host city of Sochi and used to light the cauldron at the opening ceremony on February 7.

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Запуск ракеты Старт РН "Союз-ФГ" с пилотируемым кораблем "Союз ТМА-11М" с Олимпийским огнем на борту с космодрома "Байконур".

© RIA Novosti . Anton Denisov / Go to the mediabankThe arrival of the Soyuz TMA-11M will take the number of people on the ISS to nine for the first time since October 2009 without the US shuttle, which was definitively retired in the middle of 2011.

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The arrival of the Soyuz TMA-11M will take the number of people on the ISS to nine for the first time since October 2009 without the US shuttle, which was definitively retired in the middle of 2011.