Sochi 2014: Winter Olympic torch ready for space trip
On Thursday a torch for the Sochi Winter Olympics is due to blast off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on board a Soyuz rocket.
Three cosmonauts are taking it to the International Space Station where - carefully tethered in case it is lost - it will become the first Olympic torch to go on a spacewalk.
It is all part of the elaborate preparations for Russia's first Olympics since the Soviet era.
Moscow Correspondent Daniel Sandford is in Baikonur for the launch and has been watching the preparations.
06 Nov 2013
- From the section Europe