Space – The space race is not over yet. A Russian camera crew took off this morning at about 10:55 a.m. from the Baikonur Cosmodrome aboard a Soyuz missile. They will be joining the International Space Station from October 5-17 to shoot a feature film.
The movie is titledthe challengeIt is a “space drama” in cooperation with the first Russian TV channel. It will be the first movie to be shot in space. The first film after years of artistry and gimmicks: before Russian filming, many other films had to find a way to imitate weightlessness without going into space, As you can see in the video above.
60 years after Yuri Gagarin, the Russians are offering themselves in this unprecedented depiction the luxury of once again overcoming the Americans in the space challenge. This cinematic orbital mission was announced in September 2020, a few months after NASA revealed a film project with American actor Tom Cruise.
Thus, the crew is polite with the “Mission Impossible” star and “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” director, Doug Lyman, 55. Initially scheduled for this month and finally postponed to an unknown date, the American project should be implemented in cooperation with NASA and Space X, the company of billionaire Elon Musk.
Actress Yulia Breeseld, who describes herself as “patriotic but without confirmation,” also told AFP, “We’re going to win it, this new space race! Being first is important, but being the best is more than that.”
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