A team of Russian, American and Japanese astronauts has taken off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, carrying a very special cargo on-board. They’re taking the Olympic torch up to the International Space Station – which they are carrying as part of its journey to the Sochi 2014 Winter Games.

This isn’t the first time that the torch has gone into orbit, but this is the first time that it will actually leave a spacecraft. Oleg Kotov and Sergei Ryazanky will carry the unlit torch with them on a spacewalk tomorrow (Saturday).

It will return to Earth on Monday.

NASA has published a video of the torch arriving on the ISS, embedded for your viewing pleasure below. There’ll be another tomorrow after the walk.