Tom Cruise to shoot film from space aboard the ISS

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On Tuesday, NASA announced that Tom Cruise will be filming on board the international station.

Nothing is mission impossible for Tom Cruise. The 57-year-old American actor takes on a new challenge! He should shoot a film in space, aboard the International Space Station, it was NASA that announced Tuesday.

The American space agency is “enthusiastic” about working with the star of “Top Gun” for a film aboard the International Space Station, tweeted Nasa director Jim Bridenstine, without further details. He welcomed this initiative which could “inspire a new generation of engineers and scientists” for the “ambitious projects” of his organization.

The specialized site Deadline Hollywood had echoed during the weekend rumors evoking this film project, adding that it would involve SpaceX, the company founded in 2002 by Elon Musk, the boss of Tesla. Neither Elon Musk nor SpaceX have confirmed their involvement in the film with Tom Cruise. Mr. Musk simply replied on Twitter to Mr. Bridenstine that the project “should be a lot of fun”.

Soon an takeoff of astronauts aboard a SpaceX rocket

SpaceX and NASA are preparing a historic mission scheduled for May 27 with, for the first time since 2011, the takeoff of astronauts in space from the United States and not on board a Russian rocket. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to take on a new Crew Dragon capsule taking two American astronauts, Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, to the International Space Station.

Tom Cruise films postponed due to coronavirus

According to Deadline Hollywood, even if few details have filtered on this project, it is not part of the hit film series “Mission Impossible”. Because of the spread of the coronavirus, Paramount Pictures had announced in late February the interruption of production in Italy of the next part of the series, the seventh, whose release is scheduled for July 23, 2021.

In parallel, Tom Cruise had announced to him on his Twitter account that the film “Top gun: Mawerick”, originally scheduled for this summer, would not be released before the end of the year.