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8 November 2013 – Daily Current Affairs Olympic-Flame-in-Space-Sochi 1) A Soyuz rocket carrying the Olympic flame successfully blasted off on 7 November, 2013 from Russian-operated Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan ahead of the 2014 Winter Games. The torch will make its way to the International Space Station (ISS) before being taken into space, making it the Olympic flame’s first spacewalk in history. The 2014 Winter Games are to be held at – Sochi, Japan (The Olympic torch has flown into space once before in 1996 aboard the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis for the Atlanta Summer Olympics but will be taken outside the spacecraft for the first time in history)[divider scroll_text=
Posted on: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 11:54:34 +0000

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