The Russian film director and actress, who stayed on board the International Space Station for 12 days to shoot the first film in space, returned safely to Earth, world agencies reported.
The landing capsule of the Russian ship Soyuz MS-18, with which they were traveling from the ISS, landed this morning at 4.36 am Greenwich in the Kazakh steppe. Actress Julia Peresild, director Klim Shipenko and cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky traveled in it. The towels are fine. They have already left the lander, the Russian space agency Roscosmos reported.
Shipenko’s film starring Peresild is called “Challenge”. At its center is a female surgeon who goes aboard the ISS to save the life of an astronaut. The patient was taken on as a role by astronaut Nowitzki. The film is a joint production of Roscosmos, Channel One and Yellow Studio, Black and White. Russian cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anton Shkaplerov, who are now on board the ISS, also took pictures in it.
After the departure of the actress, director and astronaut Nowitzki, in addition to Dubrov and Shkaplerov, NASA astronauts Mark Vande High, Shane Kimbrow and Megan McCarter, the astronaut from the European Space Agency Toma Peske and the astronaut from Japan astronaut remain on the ISS.
The Russian project of a “space” film preceded a competing project of the Americans, in which Tom Cruise had to participate.
Source: Roscosmos
