Sunday, November 10, 2013

Olympic Torch Makes Its First Space Walk.-For safety reasons, the flame was not lit (2 video)



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Two Russian cosmonauts conducted a ceremonial handoff of the Olympic torch at the start of a planned six-hour spacewalk to perform maintenance on the International Space Station. For obvious safety reasons, the flame was not lit. (Nov. 9/2013)

The Sochi 2014 Olympic Torch relay made history today: After riding from Earth to the International Space Station , two Russian astronauts took it with them on a space walk, marking an Olympic first.


For  safety reasons, the flame was not lit: "That's because an open flame in a spaceship could be, well, dangerous," Howard explained. "Still, once back on Earth at the opening ceremony of the Sochi Winter Olympics in February, the space torch will be all fired up."
Luckily, during the space walk, Oleg Kotov and Sergei Ryazanskiy did not let go, but the torch was tethered anyway.

 The torch will return to Earth on Monday. In case you missed it, here is video of the day the torch arrived on the Space Station
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  • Erstmals Olympia-Fackellauf im Weltall.

Erstmals findet eine Etappe des Olympia-Fackellaufs im Weltraum statt. Die russischen Kosmonauten Oleg Kotow und Sergej Rjasanski unternahmen am Samstag einen Weltraumspaziergang mit der Fackel der Olympischen Winterspiele 2014 in Sotschi. 


Die „Etappe“, bei der die beiden Raumflieger die Fackel einander übergeben und sich dabei fotografieren lassen, soll rund eine Stunde dauern. Anschließend bringen die Kosmonauten die Fackel zurück in die Internationale Raumstation (ISS) und widmen sich technischen Aufgaben an der Außenfläche der Station. Der Einsatz außerhalb der ISS soll insgesamt fünfeinhalb Stunden dauern. 

Das russische Fernsehen überträgt die Weltraum-Etappe des Olympia-Fackellaufs live.



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