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Thursday, November 7, 2013

Time lapse video of Today's Soyuz Rocket Launch

A rocket carrying the Olympic torch successfully blasted off from the Russian-operated Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan early on Thursday, ahead of the Sochi 2014 Winter Games. The Russian rocket also carried three astronauts to the International Space Station. Later on Thursday, NASA reported a flawless docking with the space station about six hours after it left Kazakhstan. The unlit torch for the 2014 Winter Olympics in the Russian city of Sochi is to be taken on a spacewalk on Saturday, then return to Earth on Monday with three departing space station astronauts.

We are certainly getting blase about sending men into space, aren't we? The only thing amazing about this video is that I managed to catch it on the day it was released. The bit about the torch is a little silly, but harmless and probably catches the attention of a couple more percentage points of the viewing audience than it would otherwise. What would have been really amazing is if they took a lit torch on the space walk and it stayed lit. Well, maybe not, being rocket scientists they could provide it with its own oxygen supply.
    Did you notice the way the launch tower rotated on its base? Didn't know they could do that.

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