Expedition 38 Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin of Roscosmos, holding the Olympic torch, Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio of NASA, top, wave farewell prior to boarding the Soyuz TMA-11M rocket for launch, Nov. 7, 2013, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Expedition 38 Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin of Roscosmos, holding the Olympic torch, Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio of NASA, top, wave farewell prior to boarding the Soyuz TMA-11M rocket for launch, Nov. 7, 2013, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Olympic torch will have a four-day visit to the International Space Station. Tyurin, Mastracchio, and Wakata will spend the next six months aboard the International Space Station.
Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls