These days it seems like everything is getting a chance to go into space and the Olympic torch is about to be added to that long list!
Russia will be sending the torch into space for the first time where it will take a spacewalk! Using the Soyuz TMA-1M manned spaceship that the Russian Federal Space Agency will be providing, the torch will be taken into space just before the2014 Winter Games in Sochi.
Previously, the Olympic torch has “swum” through the Great Barrier Reef, traveled on the back of a camel and flown on a Concord. However, this will be the first time the torch will have an adventure outside of Earth!