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                            Olympic Torch Spacewalk

   The Olympic torch is taking a slight detour on its trip from Greece to
   Sochi, Russia, for the 2014 Winter Games. This Saturday, it will spend
   some time in space. Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy
   will carry the torch outside the International Space Station as they
   begin a six-hour maintenance mission.
   The torch can not be lit in the vacuum of space. And one of the
   cosmonauts said it is not a good idea to ignite it inside the space
   station.
   "It is not planned to (ignite) anything on board the station, including
   (the) Olympic torch. But we will follow all the symbolic requirements
   and procedures working with it."
   The torch will continue its journey to Sochi on November 10, as it
   heads back for a landing in Kazakhstan along with three returning crew
   members.
   The Olympic Torch has been to space twice before, in 1996, before the
   Atlanta Games, and 2000 ahead of Sydney, but it has never been taken on
   a spacewalk.
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