Sochi Olympic Torch Taken On Historic Spacewalk

rtoz writes "Two Russian cosmonauts have taken the torch for the Sochi Winter Olympics on its first historic spacewalk. Oleg Kotov and Sergei Ryazansky took the unlit version of the torch through the hatch of the International Space Station. The Olympic torch has been carried into space twice before – in 1996 and 2000 – but it has never left a spaceship. It was not lit aboard the space station as this would consume oxygen and pose a risk to the crew."

Comments

Stolen you say?

[Zaiff Urgulbunger]

For a split-second after I read the headline, I thought it meant the torch had been taken, as in stolen, whilst out on it's space-walk.

So lets pretend that that's what it really meant because it makes for a more interesting topic!