TRIBUNNEWS.COM, KAZAKHSTAN – Russia launched actress Yulia Peresild (37) and film director Klim Shipenko (38) into space from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Tuesday (5/10/2021) at 0855 GMT.
This handout photo taken and released on October 5, 2021 by the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos shows crew members, cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov (bottom), actress Yulia Peresild (center) and film director Klim Shipenko (top) reacting during boarding the Russian spacecraft Soyuz spacecraft MS-19, before launching into the ISS from the launch pad at the Russian-chartered Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Russia on October 5, 2021 will launch an actress and film director into space in a bid to make the United States the first film to orbit. (Photo by Handout / Russian Space Agency Roscosmos / AFP) (AFP/HANDOUT)
Using the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft on a 12-day mission Yulia Peresild and Klim Shipenko will shoot scenes from the film ‘The Challenge’ on the International Space Station (ISS).
This handout photo taken and released on October 5, 2021 by the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos shows the Russian Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft hurtling to the ISS from the launch pad at the Russian-chartered Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. – Russia on October 5, 2021 will launch an actress and film director into space in a bid to make the United States the first film to orbit. (Photo by Handout / Russian Space Agency Roscosmos / AFP) (AFP/HANDOUT)
The launch was led by veteran cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov. If the mission is a success, the Russian crew will beat the Hollywood project announced earlier this year by film star Tom Cruise, alongside the US Space Agency (NASA) and Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
This handout photo taken and released on October 5, 2021 by the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos shows crew members, cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov (center), actress Yulia Peresild (left) and film director Klim Shipenko leaving their hotel prior to their departure at site 31 of the Baikonur Cosmodrome. – Russia on October 5, 2021 will launch an actress and film director into space in a bid to make the United States the first film to orbit. (Photo by – / Russian Space Agency Roscosmos / AFP) (AFP/-)
Shipenko and Peresild are scheduled to return to Earth on October 17, in a capsule together cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky who has served on the ISS for six months.
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