Russian film crew blasts off to make first movie in space
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Russian film crew blasts off to make first movie in space
Actor Yulia Peresild and director Klim Shipenko blasted off Tuesday for the International Space Station in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.
MOSCOW — In a historic first, Russia has launched an actor and a film director into space to make a feature film in orbit — a project the nation’s space chief has hailed as a chance to raise the prestige of Russia’s space program.
Actor Yulia Peresild and director Klim Shipenko blasted off Tuesday for the International Space Station in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft together with cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, a veteran of three space missions.
Their Soyuz MS-19 lifted off as scheduled from the Russian space launch facility in Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
Space officials reported that the crew was feeling fine and all spacecraft systems were functioning normally.
Russian state media has been providing blanket and patriotic coverage of the event, with the fanfare contrasting with its space industry's recent mixed fortunes.AFP - Getty Images
Peresild and Klimenko are to film segments of a new movie titled “Challenge,” in which a surgeon played by Peresild rushes to the space station to save a crew member who suffers a heart condition. After 12 days on the space outpost, they are set to return to Earth with another Russian cosmonaut.
Speaking at a pre-flight news conference Monday, 37-year-old Peresild acknowledged that it was challenging for her to adapt to the strict discipline and rigorous demands during the training.
“It was psychologically, physically and morally hard,” she said. “But I think that once we achieve the goal, all that will seem not so difficult and we will remember it with a smile.”
Shipenko, 38, who has made several commercially successful movies, also described their fast-track, four-month preparation for the flight as tough.
“Of course, we couldn’t make many things at the first try, and sometimes even at a third attempt, but it’s normal,” he said.
Shipenko, who will complete the shooting on Earth after filming space episodes, said that Shkaplerov and two other Russian cosmonauts on board the station will all play parts in the new movie.
The 12-day Russian mission follows the launch of the first all-civilian crew aboard a rocket and capsule developed by SpaceX, which was founded by businessman Elon Musk.
It is designed to get in first before a Hollywood project featuring actor Tom Cruise working with NASA and SpaceX.
Dmitry Rogozin, head of the Russian state space corporation Roscosmos, was a key driving force behind the project. Rogozin described making the world’s first feature film in space as a chance to raise the nation’s space prestige.
“Movies long have become a powerful instrument of propaganda,” he said in June, arguing that the new film would help counter what he described as Western efforts to “humiliate” the Russian space program.
Some Russian media were skeptical about the plan and there were reportedly some doubts inside the Russian space program as well.
The Russian segment of the International Space Station is considerably less spacious compared to the U.S. segment, leaving little room for filmmaking. It was expanded in July after the long-awaited arrival of the new lab module, the Nauka, which is yet to be fully integrated into the station.
Once they arrive at the space station on Tuesday, the three newcomers will join Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency; NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei, Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur; Aki Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency; and Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov.
Novitskiy, who is set to star as the ailing cosmonaut in the film, will take the captain’s seat in a Soyuz capsule to take the crew back to Earth on Oct. 17.
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It's going to be a bit crowded up there, isn't it?
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Tom Cruise and SpaceX due up next.
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Russian actress reaches International Space Station
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A Russian actress reached the International Space Station Tuesday.
Yulia Peresild hitched a ride on a Russian Soyuz rocket along with film director Klim Shipenko and cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov.
According to CBS News, Peresild will star in "The Challenge" while in space. Peresild plays the role of a doctor who was sent to the International Space Station to save a person's life, Reuters reports.
Peresild and Shipenko will spend 12 days in space before returning to earth.
"The Challenge" is the first feature film to be shot in space.
Russia reportedly wanted to beat Tom Cruise to space. According to CNN, Cruise plans to also shoot a film on the International Space Station. However, a date for the production hasn't been set.
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A Russian actress reached the International Space Station Tuesday.
Yulia Peresild hitched a ride on a Russian Soyuz rocket along with film director Klim Shipenko and cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov.
According to CBS News, Peresild will star in "The Challenge" while in space. Peresild plays the role of a doctor who was sent to the International Space Station to save a person's life, Reuters reports.
Peresild and Shipenko will spend 12 days in space before returning to earth.
"The Challenge" is the first feature film to be shot in space.
Russia reportedly wanted to beat Tom Cruise to space. According to CNN, Cruise plans to also shoot a film on the International Space Station. However, a date for the production hasn't been set.
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Russian crew wraps trailblazing movie in space, ready to return to Earth
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(CNN) -- After filming the first movie in space, Russian actress Yulia Peresild, producer-director Klim Shipenko and cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy are ready to head home.
Live coverage of the crew's return to Earth will air on NASA TV as well as the agency's website. After saying farewell to the rest of the astronauts and cosmonauts on the International Space Station and closing the hatch at 4:41 p.m. ET on October 16, their Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft will undock from the station at 9:14 p.m.
The spacecraft will experience deorbit burn at 11:42 p.m., and they will make a parachute-assisted landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan at 12:36 a.m. ET (10:36 a.m. Kazakhstan time) on October 17.
Helicopters will retrieve the crew and deliver them to Karaganda, Kazakhstan, and then they'll head to the training base in Star City, Russia, via an aircraft.
The crew's return to Earth comes on the heels of a scheduled thruster firing test of the Soyuz spacecraft Friday morning while it was still docked with the space station. At 5:13 a.m. ET Friday, the thruster firing continued unexpectedly after the test was scheduled to end. This resulted in a loss of orientation control for the space station.
"Within 30 minutes, flight controllers regained attitude control of the space station, which is now in a stable configuration," according to NASA. "The crew was awake at the time of the event and was not in any danger."
The agency and Roscosmos are working together to understand the cause as flight controllers evaluate the data. The space station also experienced a "spacecraft emergency" in July.
Peresild and Shipenko traveled to the space station alongside veteran Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov on October 5, encountering a bit of real-life drama -- in the form of communications issues -- while docking to the space station. Over the course of 12 days, they filmed their movie, "Challenge," the first feature film shot in space.
The movie will tell the story of a surgeon, played by Peresild, who has to operate on a sick cosmonaut in space, portrayed by Novitskiy, because the cosmonaut's medical condition prevents him from returning to Earth to be treated. Filming for the movie continued during the crew farewells and hatch closing.
The film is being made under a commercial agreement between Roscosmos and Moscow-based media entities Channel One and studio Yellow, Black and White.
Shkaplerov will stay on the space station and return to Earth in March with NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei and Roscosmos cosmonaut Pyotr Dubrov on the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft. When Vande Hei lands after his 355 consecutive days on the space station, he will have completed the longest single spaceflight by an astronaut in US history, according to NASA.
Novitskiy's return to Earth on Sunday morning comes after spending 191 days in space on his third mission, and he will have logged 531 days in space across three separate flights.
In addition to Shkaplerov, Vande Hei and Dubrov, the current crew on the space station includes European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet; NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur; and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Akihiko Hoshide.
Filming in space
A few films have been shot on board the space station, including a 2002 IMAX documentary that Tom Cruise narrated. "Apogee of Fear," a 2012 science fiction film clocking in at about eight minutes, was also filmed in space by entrepreneur and space tourist Richard Garriott, the son of an astronaut.
Tom Cruise and director Doug Liman revealed in 2020 that they were working together on a movie to be filmed in space, with NASA's cooperation. The project is being developed in collaboration with Elon Musk's SpaceX. Reports have suggested that Cruise's stay on the space station could also occur in October, but no definitive date for his launch has been shared -- although he did chat with the all-civilian SpaceX Inspiration 4 crew during their recent trip to space.
But Russia has become the first nation to shoot a feature film in space.
Peresild and Shipenko, who are well-known in Russia, were selected after the country's space agency, Roscosmos, opened a competition for applicants in November ((2020?)). Peresild has appeared in a number of Russian films and TV series, while Shipenko's 2020 movie "Serf" was one of Russia's highest-grossing films.
The two civilians underwent rigorous training ahead of their space jaunt. Along with understudies, the actor and the director prepared by doing centrifuge and vibration stand tests, training flights in zero gravity, and parachute training, all of which were covered by Channel One.
Other cosmonauts on board, including Novitskiy, assisted and acted as part of the film crew since production resources were more limited in the space environment.
The film "is a part of a large-scale scientific and educational project, which also includes a series of documentaries to be shot about the rocket and space industry enterprises and specialists involved in the manufacturing of launch vehicles, spacecraft, and ground space infrastructure. The project will become a clear example of the fact that spaceflights are gradually becoming available not only for professionals, but also for an increasingly wider range of those interested," according to Roscosmos.
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(CNN) -- After filming the first movie in space, Russian actress Yulia Peresild, producer-director Klim Shipenko and cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy are ready to head home.
Live coverage of the crew's return to Earth will air on NASA TV as well as the agency's website. After saying farewell to the rest of the astronauts and cosmonauts on the International Space Station and closing the hatch at 4:41 p.m. ET on October 16, their Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft will undock from the station at 9:14 p.m.
The spacecraft will experience deorbit burn at 11:42 p.m., and they will make a parachute-assisted landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan at 12:36 a.m. ET (10:36 a.m. Kazakhstan time) on October 17.
Helicopters will retrieve the crew and deliver them to Karaganda, Kazakhstan, and then they'll head to the training base in Star City, Russia, via an aircraft.
The crew's return to Earth comes on the heels of a scheduled thruster firing test of the Soyuz spacecraft Friday morning while it was still docked with the space station. At 5:13 a.m. ET Friday, the thruster firing continued unexpectedly after the test was scheduled to end. This resulted in a loss of orientation control for the space station.
"Within 30 minutes, flight controllers regained attitude control of the space station, which is now in a stable configuration," according to NASA. "The crew was awake at the time of the event and was not in any danger."
The agency and Roscosmos are working together to understand the cause as flight controllers evaluate the data. The space station also experienced a "spacecraft emergency" in July.
Peresild and Shipenko traveled to the space station alongside veteran Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov on October 5, encountering a bit of real-life drama -- in the form of communications issues -- while docking to the space station. Over the course of 12 days, they filmed their movie, "Challenge," the first feature film shot in space.
The movie will tell the story of a surgeon, played by Peresild, who has to operate on a sick cosmonaut in space, portrayed by Novitskiy, because the cosmonaut's medical condition prevents him from returning to Earth to be treated. Filming for the movie continued during the crew farewells and hatch closing.
The film is being made under a commercial agreement between Roscosmos and Moscow-based media entities Channel One and studio Yellow, Black and White.
Shkaplerov will stay on the space station and return to Earth in March with NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei and Roscosmos cosmonaut Pyotr Dubrov on the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft. When Vande Hei lands after his 355 consecutive days on the space station, he will have completed the longest single spaceflight by an astronaut in US history, according to NASA.
Novitskiy's return to Earth on Sunday morning comes after spending 191 days in space on his third mission, and he will have logged 531 days in space across three separate flights.
In addition to Shkaplerov, Vande Hei and Dubrov, the current crew on the space station includes European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet; NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur; and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Akihiko Hoshide.
Filming in space
A few films have been shot on board the space station, including a 2002 IMAX documentary that Tom Cruise narrated. "Apogee of Fear," a 2012 science fiction film clocking in at about eight minutes, was also filmed in space by entrepreneur and space tourist Richard Garriott, the son of an astronaut.
Tom Cruise and director Doug Liman revealed in 2020 that they were working together on a movie to be filmed in space, with NASA's cooperation. The project is being developed in collaboration with Elon Musk's SpaceX. Reports have suggested that Cruise's stay on the space station could also occur in October, but no definitive date for his launch has been shared -- although he did chat with the all-civilian SpaceX Inspiration 4 crew during their recent trip to space.
But Russia has become the first nation to shoot a feature film in space.
Peresild and Shipenko, who are well-known in Russia, were selected after the country's space agency, Roscosmos, opened a competition for applicants in November ((2020?)). Peresild has appeared in a number of Russian films and TV series, while Shipenko's 2020 movie "Serf" was one of Russia's highest-grossing films.
The two civilians underwent rigorous training ahead of their space jaunt. Along with understudies, the actor and the director prepared by doing centrifuge and vibration stand tests, training flights in zero gravity, and parachute training, all of which were covered by Channel One.
Other cosmonauts on board, including Novitskiy, assisted and acted as part of the film crew since production resources were more limited in the space environment.
The film "is a part of a large-scale scientific and educational project, which also includes a series of documentaries to be shot about the rocket and space industry enterprises and specialists involved in the manufacturing of launch vehicles, spacecraft, and ground space infrastructure. The project will become a clear example of the fact that spaceflights are gradually becoming available not only for professionals, but also for an increasingly wider range of those interested," according to Roscosmos.
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