Olympic Torch Carried on Spacewalk

Even though the Olympic torch was already taken on the space shuttle Atlantis in 1996 for the Atlanta Summer Olympics.The Russians think it would be more impressive to take the torch out of the space shuttle on Saturday by two cosmonauts as it orbited above Earth. However, the torch was not burning because lighting it would consume a lot of Oxygen.

The Torch will stay in a special box on ISS (International Space Station).