Olympic Torch Sent to Space

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MOSCOW—A rocket carrying the Olympic torch successfully blasted off Thursday from Earth on its way to the international space station and its first spacewalk in history.
Starting a spectacular leg of the relay counting down to the Sochi 2014 Winter Games, NASA Live TV showed the rocket emblazoned with the pale blue Sochi logo launching from the Russian-operated Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Russia’s Mikhail Tyurin, NASA’s Rick Mastracchio and Koichi Wakata of Japan beamed …
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