If Tom Cruise is looking a little depressed these days, it’s because another actor is about to beat him to the International Space Station to film the first on-location space thriller. That actor is Yulia Peresild. Who?
“On May 13, 2021, the State Commission completed the candidate selection for participating in the spaceflight to film the motion picture tentatively called ‘Challenge’.
As a result of medical and creative selection, the State Commission recommended to nominate Yulia Peresild and Klim Shipenko as the prime crew and Alyona Mordovina and Alexey Dudin as the backup crew. The filming will take place at the International Space Station. The expedition is planned to launch on October 5, 2021 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft.”
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has picked four people to serve as nonprofessional crew members and actors in what is planned to be the first movie to be sh.
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Russia s space agency announced the winner of an open contest to send an actor to space.
Yulia Peresild is due to take off for the ISS on October 5, the agency said Thursday.
Russia could beat a plan by Tom Cruise to shoot the first feature film in space.
Russia s space agency announced the winner of an open contest to send an actor to the International Space Station (ISS) this year.
Russia aims to launch the team on October 5, in a bid to be the first feature film shot in space.
Peresild was one of four finalists of an open audition run by Roscosmos, the Russian space agency. The announcement that she had won the competition was made on Thursday.
Russia picks cast for movie to be shot in space
05/13/2021 22:05
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has picked four people to serve as nonprofessional crew members and actors in what is planned to be the first movie to be shot in outer space, Russia s Roscosmos space agency said on Thursday.
Some of them are scheduled to be launched on a Soyuz MS-19 craft on Oct. 5 to be delivered to the International Space Station, which orbits Earth at an altitude of around 220 miles (354 km), according to Roscosmos and NASA. Among other things, they will have to take centrifuge tests, vibration stand tests, perform introductory and training flights on a zero-gravity plane, undergo parachute training, Roscosmos said.