MOSCOW — A Russian rocket soared into the cosmos Thursday carrying the Sochi Olympic torch and three astronauts to the International Space Station ahead of the first-ever spacewalk for the symbol of ...

Russia on Thursday launched into space a trio of Russian, Japanese and US ­astronauts carrying an unlit Olympic torch that will for the first time be taken on a spacewalk to mark the 2014 Winter Games ...

This was the incredible moment Russian astronauts handed over the Olympic Torch - 260 miles above Earth. Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy performed the handover during a five-hour spacewalk on the ...

The Olympic torch is seen from the helmet camera of Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov in this view from a spacewalk on Nov. 9, 2013. Cosmonaut Sergey Ryazanskiy is seen awaiting the torch, which will be ...

A crew of three took the Olympic torch to the International Space Station on a Russian rocket yesterday, ready to send it on its first space walk in a showcase for the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi. A ...

A handout picture taken during the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic torch relay on November 4, 2013 shows torchbearers passing the Olympic flame in the town of Salekhard, northeast of Moscow (AFP) Baikonur, ...

TORONTO – The International Space Station (ISS) is expecting an unusual arrival: the Olympic torch. On Friday, Expedition 37 Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and flight engineers Karen Nyberg and Luca ...