Among The Stars
Space, the final frontier, has had its shares of visitors over the past decades, from animals to billionaires.
Recently, a Russian movie star and director became the latest individuals to visit space – but the first to shoot a movie around the Earth’s orbit, CNET reported.
The Soyuz spacecraft carrying actor Yulia Peresild and director Klim Shipenko along with veteran cosmonaut, Anton Shkaplerov, successfully docked at the International Space Station last week following a short flight from Earth.
The two artists will be filming a Russian film called “the Challenge” during their 12-day stay. The movie is about a surgeon – played by Peresild – sent to the space station to treat a cosmonaut – played by another veteran cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky – after he suffered a heart attack during a spacewalk, according to Space.com.
Both Peresild and Shipenko had to undergo months of training to ensure a successful mission, which they described as “psychologically, physically and morally hard.”
Even so, the fact they visited space still astounds them.
“I still feel that it’s all a dream and I’m still asleep,” Peresild, an award-winning actor, told Russia’s Channel One.
The Russian film crew became the first to shoot a feature film in space, beating actor Tom Cruise: Last year, Cruise and director Doug Liman announced they were working with NASA on a movie to be filmed in space, according to CNN.
One day, space epics such as Star Wars and Star Trek might be filmed on location.
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