The 2014 Olympic torch was recently sent to space!

The 2014 Olympic torch was recently sent to space!

Russia is trying to do a lot to impress the world when they hold the Winter Olympics next year in Sochi. One of those things is sending the torch all the way up to space.


The torch won’t be lit during the 5 days it will spend in space, for security reasons. It will be accompanied by Russian, American and Japanese astronauts.


This is the second time an olympic torch has been to space. It went right before the 1996 Atlanta games. This, however, will be the first time that a torch will go on a spacewalk.


The torch has already been to the North Pole and will be taken to the world’s deepest lake and Europe’s highest mountain later. I’m jealous of how much this thing has travelled.


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