Expedition 38 Crew With Olympic Torch
Expedition 38 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace
Exploration Agency, left, Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin of Roscosmos, and
Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio of NASA, right, smile and wave as they hold an
Olympic torch that will be flown with them to the International Space Station,
during a press conference held Wed., Nov. 6, at the Cosmonaut hotel in Baikonur,
Kazakhstan. On Sat., Nov. 9, the Olympic torch will be carried on a spacewalk
outside the space station. The torch -- which returns to Earth aboard another
Soyuz on Sun., Nov. 10 with Flight Engineers Karen Nyberg and Luca Parmitano and
Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin -- will light the flame at the opening of the 2014
Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia.
Launch of the Soyuz rocket carrying the Expedition 38 trio is scheduled for
11:14 p.m. EST Wed., Nov. 6 (10:14 a.m. Kazakh time, Nov. 7) and will send
Tyurin, Mastracchio and Wakata on a six-month mission aboard the space
station.
Image Credit: NASA/Bill
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