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Russian crew return to Earth after filming first movie in space
Yulia Peresild and Klim Shipenko landed as scheduled on Kazakhstan's steppe at 0436 GMT, according to footage broadcast live by the Russian space agency.
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This handout video grab taken and released on October 17, 2021 by the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos shows crew members Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy (center), Russian actress Yulia Peresild (left) and film director Klim Shipenko resting in chairs after landing, southeast of the Kazakh town of Zhezkazgan, on October 17, 2021. The Russian actress and the film director returned to Earth after spending 12 days on the International Space Station (ISS) shooting scenes for the first movie in orbit. (AFP/Russian Space Agency)
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Russian actress and a film director returned to Earth Sunday after spending 12 days on the International Space Station (ISS) shooting scenes for the first movie in orbit.
Yulia Peresild and Klim Shipenko landed as scheduled on Kazakhstan's steppe at 0436 GMT, according to footage broadcast live by the Russian space agency.
They were ferried back to terra firma by cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky, who had been on the space station for the past six months.
"The descent vehicle of the crewed spacecraft Soyuz MS-18 is standing upright and is secure. The crew are feeling good!" Russian space agency Roscosmos tweeted.
The filmmakers had blasted off from the Russia-leased Baikonur Cosmodrome in ex-Soviet Kazakhstan earlier this month, travelling to the ISS with veteran cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov to film scenes for "The Challenge".
If the project stays on track, the Russian crew will beat a Hollywood project announced last year by "Mission Impossible" star Tom Cruise together with NASA and Elon Musk's SpaceX.
The movie's plot, which has been mostly kept under wraps along with its budget, centres around a surgeon who is dispatched to the ISS to save a cosmonaut.
