The Olympic torch that will be used to open the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia, has completed a sojourn in space and this morning landed back on Earth.
The torch arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday aboard a Soyuz spacecraft and was carried on a spacewalk outside the ISS on Saturday by Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanski.
It was returned to Earth this morning by three crew members completing a 70,3-million mile mission spanning more than 2 600 orbits of the Earth since their launch to the ISS in May.
Pictured: The view from flight engineer Sergey Ryazanskiy’s helmet camera as flight engineer Oleg Kotov waves the Olympic torch outside the ISS during Saturday’s spacewalk.
Image Credit: NASA TV
