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Russian crew blast off to film first movie in space
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This handout photo taken and released on October 5, 2021 by Russian Space Agency Roscosmos crew members, cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov (C), actress Yulia Peresild (L) and film director Klim Shipenko walking to board the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft prior to its launch at the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome. (AFP/Handout/Russian Space Agency Roscosmos)
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Russian actress and director blasted off to the International Space Station on Tuesday in a historic bid to best the United States to film the first movie in orbit.
The Russian crew is set to beat a Hollywood project that was announced last year by Mission Impossible star Tom Cruise together with NASA and Elon Musk's SpaceX.
Actress Yulia Peresild, 37, and film director Klim Shipenko, 38, took off from the Russia-leased Baikonur Cosmodrome in ex-Soviet Kazakhstan at the expected time of 0855 GMT, with docking scheduled for 1212 GMT.
"Launch as planned," the head of the Roscosmos space agency, Dmitry Rogozin, said on Twitter.
Led by veteran cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, the film crew will travel in a Soyuz MS-19 spaceship for a 12-day mission at the ISS to film scenes for The Challenge.
A live broadcast on Russian TV showed the Soyuz spacecraft ascending into a cloudless sky.
"The crew is feeling well," Shkaplerov was heard saying in the broadcast several minutes after take-off.
