Russian cosmonauts take the Olympic torch for its first spacewalk ahead of Sochi games

Russian cosmonauts take the Olympic torch for its first spacewalk ahead of Sochi games

Nov 9th 2013, 20:03, by Billy Steele

 Russia has already made Olympic history and the Sochi games don't start until February. Earlier today, two cosmonauts took the ceremonial red and silver-clad torch for its first space relay ahead of the 2014 winter session. Torches were taken into space by astronauts in 1996 and 2000, but neither of ...