Prior to a competing American project with Tom Cruise, the actress Iulia Peressild and the director Klim Chipenko took off on October 5 of the Russian cosmodrome of Baikonour in Kazakhstan, alongside cosmonaut Anton Chkaplerov.
The actress and the Russian director who stayed for twelve days aboard the International Space Station (ISS) to turn the first film in the space returned to Earth, Sunday, October 17. The Soyuz MS-18 ship carrying Iulia Peressild, Klim Chipenko and Cosmonaut Oleg Novitski landed on Kazakhstan’s steppes at 6:36 (Paris Time), depending on live broadcast images by the Russian space agency.
The Klim Chipenko director, 38, appeared coming out of the capsule, visibly experienced but smiling, making a hand gesture to the cameras and those present, before being worn to the doctors to control his condition.
Iulia Peressild, 37, the actress playing the main role of the film, selected from some 3,000 candidates, was then extracted from the capsule under the applause, in the same state, before receiving a bouquet of flowers and to be examined.
The cosmonaut Oleg Novitski, released the first of the ship, was greeted by the boss of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozine, to whom he launched: “All is fine! “.
Shortly before the return on Earth, Mr. Rogozine had published photographs of his life-saving team on landing places on board ten helicopters.
New exploitation race in L ‘space
ADVANTAGING a competitor American project with Tom Cruise, Iulia Peressild and Klim Chipenko took off on October 5 of the Russian cosmodrome of Baikonour in Kazakhstan, alongside the Cosmonaut Anton Chkaplerov. Their film, temporarily entitled the challenge, will stage a surgeon going aboard the ISS with the mission of saving the life of a cosmonaut. Two Russian cosmonauts currently stationed on the ISS and Mr. Chkaplerov will appear in this film as extras.
In a context of Russian-American rivalry, this cinematographic adventure also takes on a new race to the exploits in space, 60 years after the orbit of the first man by the USSR, Iuri Gagarin.
The Russian space sector, which was the pride of Moscow in the Soviet era, including the orbit of the first satellite, the first animal, the first man and the first woman, is now undermined by the problems . For Roscosmos, the film must restore a tarnished blazon by corruption scandals, series failures and loss of the lucrative monopoly of inhabited flights to the ISS.
This initiative also occurs in full non-scientific rush towards space, with multiplication in recent months of leisure flights, such as British billionaires Richard Branson and American Jeff Bezos. In addition to the film, Roscosmos should soon drive a Japanese billionaire to the ISS.
The film project has sparked controversy in the Russian scientific community. The director of the agency’s inhabited flight program, Sergei Krikalev, has even been fired this summer for saying that money would have been better invested in spatial research and innovation. The French astronaut Thomas Pesquet also expressed his skepticism, noting that we could do so realistic in the studio. It was, however, under its command the Russian mission took place, Thomas Pesquet took for the first time his duties as Captain of the ISS, on October 4, for a period of thirteen days.