Photos: Soyuz rocket lifts off with Olympic torch
November 7, 2013
The Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz TMA-11M space ship carrying a new crew to the International Space Station (ISS) blasts off at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2013. The Russian rocket carries Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata, Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin and U.S. astronaut Rick Mastracchio who will deliver an Olympic torch to space as part of the ongoing Olympic torch relay. The torch will be brought back along with the station's current crew. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky) ( Kazakhstan Russia Space Olympics )
People take photographs as Russia's Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft carrying an international crew including Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata, Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin and US astronaut Rick Mastracchio and an unlit Olympic torch for the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi aboard blasts off from the Russian leased Kazakh Baikonur cosmodrome on November 7, 2013. Two Russian astronauts will take the unlit torch on a space walk on November 9 before it returns back to Earth on November 11. AFP PHOTO/KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP/Getty Images ( 524424144 )
The Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz TMA-11M space ship carrying new crew to the International Space Station, ISS, blasts off at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2013. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky) ( APTOPIX Kazakhstan Russia Space Olympics )
In this handout photo provided by NASA, The Soyuz TMA-11M rocket is launched with Expedition 38 Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin of Roscosmos, Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio of NASA and Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency onboard, on November 7, 2013, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Tyurin, Mastracchio, and, Wakata will spend the next six months aboard the International Space Station. (Photo by Bill Ingalls/NASA via Getty Images) ( 187226209 )
In this handout photo provided by NASA, The Soyuz TMA-11M rocket is launched with Expedition 38 Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin of Roscosmos, Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio of NASA and Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency onboard, on November 7, 2013, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. (Photo by Bill Ingalls/NASA via Getty Images) ( 187226210 )
Russia's Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft carrying an international crew including Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata, Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin and US astronaut Rick Mastracchio and an unlit Olympic torch for the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi aboard blasts off from the Russian leased Kazakh Baikonur cosmodrome on November 7, 2013. AFP PHOTO/KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP/Getty Images ( 524424134 )
The Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz TMA-11M space ship carrying a new crew to the International Space Station (ISS) flies in the sky at the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2013. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky) ( Kazakhstan Russia Space Olympics )
A police APC drives past cameramen preparing to film launch of the Soyuz-FG rocket booster with the Soyuz TMA-11M spaceship carrying a new crew to the International Space Station, at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2013. The Russian rocket carries Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata, Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin and US astronaut Rick Mastracchio. The crew will deliver Olympic torch to space as part of the ongoing Olympic torch relay. The torch will be brought back along with the station's current crew. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky) ( Kazakhstan Russia Space Olympics )
U.S. astronaut Rick Mastracchio smiles during space suit test prior to blast off to the International Space Station (ISS) from the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan early on November 7, 2013. Russia on November 7 launched into space a trio of Russian, Japanese and US astronauts carrying an unlit Olympic torch that will for the first time be taken on a spacewalk to mark the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi. The Soyuz-FG rocket and Soyuz-TMA capsule, emblazoned with the symbols of the Sochi Games and the Olympic rings, blasted off for the International Space Station (ISS) from Baikonur. AFP PHOTO/ POOL / SHAMIL ZHUMATOV/AFP/Getty Images ( 524420620 )
Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata (L), Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin (C) and US astronaut Rick Mastracchio undergo a space suit test prior to blast off to the International Space Station (ISS) from the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan early on November 7, 2013. Russia on November 7 launched into space a trio of Russian, Japanese and US astronauts carrying an unlit Olympic torch that will for the first time be taken on a spacewalk to mark the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi. AFP PHOTO/ POOL / SHAMIL ZHUMATOV/AFP/Getty Images ( 524420627 )
This NASA handout photo shows (from L) Expedition 38 Soyuz Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Commander Mikhail Tyurin of Roscosmos and Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio of NASA, waving farewell as they hold the Olympic torch prior to boarding the Soyuz TMA-11M rocket for launch, November 7, 2013 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Olympic torch have a four-day visit to the International Space Station. Tyurin, Mastracchio, and, Wakata will spend the next six months aboard the International Space Station. AFP PHOTO / NASA / BILL INGALLS /AFP/Getty Images ( 524423032 )
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