Vladimir Putin hails achievement that beat Hollywood project announced by Tom Cruise, Nasa and Elon Musk’s SpaceX
The first feature film shot in space premiered in Russian cinemas on Thursday, as Moscow exulted in beating a rival Hollywood project amid a confrontation with the west.Station to save an injured cosmonaut. Russia sent an actor and a film director for a 12-day stint on the ISS in October 2021 to film scenes aboard the orbiting laboratory.
The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has lauded the film, saying: “We are the first to have shot a feature film in orbit, aboard a spacecraft. Once again the first.” In The Challenge a surgeon played by Yulia Peresild, 38, is sent to the ISS to save a cosmonaut injured during a spacewalk.Photograph: Roscosmos Handout/EPA
Peresild and Shipenko underwent training for four months before going to space on a Soyuz spacecraft accompanied by a cosmonaut. The sequences were shot in the Russian module of the ISS and featured cameo appearances by three Russian cosmonauts stationed there at the time.
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