A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying an Olympic torch for the upcoming Sochi Winter Games blasted off Thursday from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, authorities said.
Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said the Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft was launched at 08:14 Moscow time (0414 GMT) and separated from the carrier rocket nine minutes later before entering the desired orbit.
The Sochi 2014 Olympic torch will be delivered to the International Space Station (ISS) by the crew.
The spacecraft is expected to dock with the ISS at 14:00 Moscow time (1000 GMT). Three cosmonauts, Russian Mikhail Tyurin, NASA astronaut Richard Mastracchio and astronaut of theJapanese Space Agency JAXA Koichi Wakata, will join with six others on the ISS.
The torch will be taken on a short spacewalk Saturday by Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy before being taken back to Earth later.
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