This Article is From Nov 07, 2013

Russian spacecraft carrying Olympic torch docks with ISS

Russian spacecraft carrying Olympic torch docks with ISS

Russia's Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft carrying an international crew and an unlit Olympic torch for the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi aboard flies after blasting off from the Russian-leased Kazakh Baikonur cosmodrome on November 7, 2013 (AP)

Moscow: A Russian spacecraft carrying three astronauts and an unlit Olympic torch docked successfully with the International Space Station (ISS), Russian mission control said.

"We have arrived," a mission control spokesman said as Russian television showed live footage of docking of the Soyuz-TMA capsule carrying Russian, US and Japanese astronauts and the torch for the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi.

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