ARussian :actor and a film director have returned to Earth after spending 12 days on the International Space Station shooting scenes for the first movie in route. Yulia Peresild and Klim Shipenko landed as listed on Kazakhstan’s campo beforehand on Sunday, according to footage broadcast live by the Russian space agency. They were ferried back to terra firma by cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky, who had been on the space station for the once six months. “ The descent vehicle of the crewed spacecraft Soyuz MS-18 is standing upright and is secure. The crew is feeling good!” Russian space agency Roscosmos twittered.
The filmmakers had blasted off from the Russia- leased Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan before this month, travelling to the ISS with expert cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov to retake scenes for The Challenge Still, the Russian crew will beat a Hollywood design blazoned last time by Mission Insolvable star Tom Cruise together with Nasa and Elon Musk’s SpaceX, If the design stays on track The movie’s plot, which has been substantially kept under wraps along with its budget, centres around a surgeon who’s dispatched to the ISS to save a cosmonaut Shkaplerov, 49, along with the two Russian cosmonauts who were formerly aboard the ISS, are said to have gem places in the film.
The charge wasn’t without small terms. As the film crew docked at the ISS before this month, Shkaplerov had to switch to homemade control. And when Russian flight regulators on Friday conducted a test on the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft the boat’s thruster fired suddenly and destabilised the ISS for 30 twinkles, a Nasa prophet told the Russian news agency TASS Their wharf, which was proved by a film crew, will also feature in the movie, Konstantin Ernst, the head of the Kremlin-friendly Channel One Television network and aco-producer of The Challenge, told AFP.
The charge will add to a long list of firsts for Russia’s space assiduitY The Soviets launched the first satellite Sputnik, and transferred into route the first beast, a canine named Laika, the first man, Yuri Gagarin, and the first woman, Valentina Tereshkova But compared with the Soviet period, ultramodern Russia has plodded to introduce and its space assiduity is fighting to secure state backing with the Kremlin prioritising military spendinG Its space agency is still reliant on Soviet- designed technology and has faced a number of lapses, including corruption dishonors and muffed launches.
Russia is also falling before in the global space race, facing tough competition from the US and China, with Beijing showing growing intentions in the assiduity Russia’s Roscosmos was also dealt a blow after SpaceX last time successfully delivered astronauts to the ISS, ending Moscow’s monopoly for peregrinations to the orbital station In a shot to improve up its image and diversify its profit, Russia’s space programme revealed this time that it’ll be reviving its tourism plan to ferry figure- paying comers to the ISS After a decade-long pause, Russia will shoot two Japanese excursionists – including billionaire Yusaku Maezawa – to the ISS in December, circumscribing a time that has been a corner for amateur space trip.
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