Roscosmos cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, actress Yulia Peresild and producer Klim Shipenko lifted aboard Russia's Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4.55 a.m. EDT (2.25 p.m. Tuesday, India time).
"It's always difficult and scary to be pioneers, but it's very interesting!" 37-year-old actress Julia Peresild in a translated Instagram post.
Roscosmos will blast off a cosmonaut, a film director and an actor on its Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 2:25 pm Indian Standard Time on Tuesday.