Olympic Torch In Space

• Weather delays return from space of Russian torchbearers, US astronaut

  An American astronaut and two Russians who carried a Sochi Olympic torch into open space will have to stay in orbit one day longer than planned because of bad weather on the steppes of Kazakhstan, officials said on Monday.

• Russians take Olympic torch on historic spacewalk

  Two cosmonauts took the Olympic torch - unlit - for a spacewalk Saturday in a historic showcasing of Russia's hosting of the Sochi Winter Olympic Games in 2014.

• Russia to take Olympic torch into space ahead of 2014 Winter Games

  Three new crew members blast off Thursday for the International Space Station (ISS) on a Russian rocket, taking with them the Olympic torch for the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi.

• Russian astronauts to take Olympic torch on space walk

  Russian astronauts will take an unlit Olympic torch on a space walk ahead of the country's hosting of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, the deputy head of the Russian space agency said on Sunday.

• Russia plans to send Olympic torch into space

  Russia is planning to send the Olympic flame into space ahead of the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, the deputy Prime Minister said.Alexander Zhukov said at an International Olympic Committee (IOC) meeting in South Africa Thursday that Russia aims to be the first country to take the flame into space as part of the longest-ever Olympic torch relay, Xinh...