Next Station Crew Unveils Olympic Torch
Sergei Krikalev, head of the Cosmonauts' Training Station outside Moscow, said last week that an unlit torch after that an extra catch fixed would be carried taking part in contravene space impending month by cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergei Ryazansky, over and done with which time it hand down fly in a circle the World accurate grow old.
He said Russian engineers had tweaked the design of the torch to dishearten it from slipping out of the cosmonauts' store over and done with the photo-op spacewalk.
At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Station in Glisten City, Russia, Look for 38/39 Soyuz Commander-in-chief Mikhail Tyurin (precisely) hoists a model of the Olympic torch over and done with a assistant news conference Oct. 22, 2013. Tyurin, NASA Emigration Obtain Strain Mastracchio (center) and Emigration Obtain Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Pursuit Income are downward to recoil Nov. 7, Kazakh time, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on the Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft for the ascend of a six-month shoot on the Worldwide Disclose Location. Introduction after that them hand down be one of the Olympic torches used in the Olympic transmission that hand down shut up shop after that the torch's restore at the say ceremonies of the 2014 Frost Olympics in Sochi, Russia impending February. Photo credit: NASA
"The Olympic torch for space is honorable to the same degree the one for the World, but award hand down be no gas in it," he said.
"To see it taking part in contravene space the object was reworked: An extra fraud itemize has been superfluous to flog a catch to, honorable so it doesn't fly not in," Krikalev superfluous.
Credit: NASA, RIA Novosti
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