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The Russian actress went to shoot in space

Russia, the country’s main rival, also wants to compete with the United States in shooting movies in space. That’s why a Russian actress and director went to the International Space Station on Tuesday to shoot the first movie outside the world.

The two men who went to the space station are actress Yulia Peresild (38) and director Klim Shipenko (38). To reach the space station, the two of them started their journey from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at around 3 pm Bangladesh time today. The spacecraft carrying them arrived at the space station at 6:12 pm.

The Russian actress went to shoot in space

NASA announced last year that it would shoot a movie in space as part of a Hollywood project. Popular American actor Tom Cruise was also reportedly sent into space to shoot a movie for the ‘Mission Impossible’ series. For this, NASA and millionaire Elon Musk’s Space-X are working together. Russia’s move is seen as a step in the right direction.

Wearing a bright red flight suit, Yulia Peresild, who will play the role of a surgeon making an emergency house call to the station in the movie “The Challenge,” was all smiles floating into the lab complex, telling Russian television viewers she felt like she was dreaming.

The Russian actress went to shoot in space

“Everything was new to us today, every 30 seconds brought something entirely new,” she said through an interpreter during a brief video conference from the Russian Zvezda module. “We just met the rest of the crew, the cosmonauts and astronauts who’ve been living on board the station for some time now. But I’m still in a dream.

“I still feel that it’s all just a dream and I am asleep,” she marveled. “It’s almost impossible to believe this all came to reality.”

The Russian actress went to shoot in space

Added her director, Klim Shipenko: “It was incredible. It was hard, but it was great to arrive on board the station. We were met by friends.”

Soyuz MS-19/65S commander Anton Shkaplerov said his two space rookie crewmates performed during the launch and rendezvous, “exactly the way it was required by their training. They did a great job.”

Adding a bit of real-life drama to the rendezvous and docking, Shkaplerov had to take over manual control during final approach when the Soyuz spacecraft’s automated rendezvous system was unable to cope with “ratty data.”

The Russian actress went to shoot in space

“Just as you trained for,” a Russian flight controller radioed. “You’ll be fine.”

Despite frequent communications drop outs and a “God be with us” from someone on the Russian radio channel, Shkaplerov, a three-flight veteran, had no problems manually guiding the Soyuz MS-19/65S spacecraft in for docking at the space station’s Russian Rassvet module.

“Our goal is not just to make movies, we need to return to the living world,” said astronaut Shakplerov. Yulia and Shipenko are expected to return to Earth on October 17.

 

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