The Sochi Olympic torch is about to fly to space

The flight to the International Space Station (ISS) of the three astronauts of the Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft on November 7 will have a special mission to turn the torch of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics up. space.

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According to AFP, Russia's Soyuz TMA-11M ships with Koichi Wakata (JAXA), Mikhail Tyurin (Russian Federal Space Agency - Roscosmos) and Rick Mastracchio (Aviation Agency and NASA Space - NASA) will depart on November 7 to begin the 190-day mission in space.

After leaving the launch pad at Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Soyuz TMA-11M takes only six hours to dock at the ISS. This will be the fourth consecutive "express" flight that takes people to ISS Roscosmos, since the first trip in March, compared to the usual two-day journey.

Three astronauts of the Soyuz TMA-11M ship are about to be sent to ISS (left to the left): Koichi Wakata, Mikhail Tyurin and Rick Mastracchio - (Photo: AFP)

With six hours of flying, the Soyuz TMA-11M will only take 4 laps around the Earth's orbit to reach and connect to the ISS, compared to the previous 30 rounds.

Currently on ISS, six working astronauts including three astronauts brought by Soyuz TMA-09M in late May are Fyodor Yurchikhin (Roscosmos), Karen Nyberg (NASA) and Luca Parmitano (ESA) and three people. Soyuz TMA-10M posted by the end of September was Oleg Kotov, Sergey Ryazansky (Roscosmos) and Mike Hopkins (NASA).

As planned, the Soyuz TMA-09M leaves the station on November 10. At that time, three Soyuz TMA-10M astronauts in combination with three Soyuz TMA-11M astronauts will become the 38th ISS International Fleet, with the commander of Oleg Kotov.

AFP quoted NASA officials as saying that astronauts Kotov and Ryazansky will take the Sochi Olympic torch (taking place February 7-23, 2014) out of space on an outing walk. iconic space on 9/11.

On November 1, Soyuz TMA-09M and three of the ship's crews separated from the connecting port of Rassvet on ISS to make a round-the-clock flight to prepare for the Soyuz TMA reception. 11M coming. After completing the mission, Soyuz TMA-09M was manually operated by the astronauts and gently connected to the ISS in the Zvezda module.