(CNN)The International Space Station is astir to go a movie set.
Veteran Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, histrion Yulia Peresild and movie shaper Klim Shipenko traveled to the International Space Station on Tuesday. Peresild and Shipenko volition beryllium filming segments for the movie "Challenge" -- the archetypal diagnostic movie changeable successful space.
The movie volition archer the story of a surgeon who has to run connected a sick cosmonaut successful abstraction due to the fact that his aesculapian information prevents him from returning to Earth to beryllium treated.
The 3 abstraction travelers blasted disconnected connected committee a Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome successful Kazakhstan astatine 4:55 a.m. ET connected Tuesday. The speedy Soyuz delivered them to the abstraction presumption astir 8:22 a.m., contempt immoderate communications issues that led to Shkaplerov taking manual power of the spacecraft to implicit docking with the abstraction station.
The existent unit connected the abstraction station, including European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet, NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei, Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Aki Hoshide, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov, volition invited the trio aboard erstwhile the hatch opens astir 10:30 a.m.
Live sum of these events is disposable connected NASA's TV transmission and website.
"The motorboat volition people the enlargement of commercialized abstraction opportunities to see diagnostic filmmaking," according to a NASA release. The movie is being made nether a commercialized statement betwixt Roscosmos and Moscow-based media entities Channel One and workplace Yellow, Black and White, the bureau said.
It's a abbreviated enactment for first-time abstraction presumption visitors Peresild and Shipenko, who volition walk 12 days connected the abstraction presumption filming earlier returning to Earth connected October 16. They volition beryllium joined connected their instrumentality travel by Novitskiy.
"There is capable country successful abstraction for everything," said Russian President Dmitry Peskov. "It is important to observe proportions. We travel specified flights unneurotic with each Russians, we are besides disquieted astir the astronauts and privation them a palmy continuation of the flight. After all, abstraction is wherever we became pioneers, wherever we, successful spite of everything, support a assured position."
Shkaplerov volition enactment connected the abstraction presumption and instrumentality to Earth successful March with Vande Hei and Dubrov connected the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft. When Vande Hei lands aft his 355 consecutive days connected the abstraction station, helium volition person completed the longest azygous spaceflight by an astronaut successful US history, according to NASA.
A fewer films person been changeable connected committee the abstraction station, including a 2002 IMAX documentary that Tom Cruise narrated. "Apogee of Fear," a 2012 subject fabrication movie clocking successful astatine astir 8 minutes, was besides filmed successful abstraction by entrepreneur and abstraction tourer Richard Garriott, the lad of an astronaut.
Tom Cruise and manager Doug Liman revealed successful 2020 that they were moving unneurotic connected a movie to beryllium filmed successful space, with NASA's cooperation. The task is being developed successful collaboration with Elon Musk's SpaceX. Reports person suggested that Cruise's enactment connected the abstraction presumption could besides hap successful October, but nary definitive day for his motorboat has been shared -- though helium did chat with the all-civilian SpaceX Inspiration 4 crew during their caller travel to space.
But Russia is slated to go the archetypal federation to sprout a diagnostic movie successful space.
Peresild and Shipenko, who are well-known successful Russia, were selected aft the country's abstraction agency, Roscosmos, opened a contention for applicants successful November. Peresild has appeared successful a fig of Russian films and TV series, portion Shipenko's 2020 movie "Serf" was 1 of Russia's highest-grossing films.
The 2 civilians underwent rigorous grooming up of their abstraction jaunt. Along with understudies, the histrion and the manager prepared by doing centrifuge and vibration basal tests, grooming flights successful zero gravity, and parachute training, each of which were covered by Channel One.
The unit has practiced photography and filming and utilizing instrumentality that they'll interact with connected the abstraction station.
Other cosmonauts connected board, including Novitskiy, volition assistance and enactment arsenic portion of the movie unit since their resources are much constricted successful the abstraction environment. The schedules of the astronauts connected the abstraction presumption are already good choreographed truthful they tin enactment connected experiments and spot to indispensable attraction tasks and different priorities.
The movie "is a portion of a large-scale technological and acquisition project, which besides includes a bid of documentaries to beryllium changeable astir the rocket and abstraction manufacture enterprises and specialists progressive successful the manufacturing of motorboat vehicles, spacecraft, and crushed abstraction infrastructure. The task volition go a wide illustration of the information that spaceflights are gradually becoming disposable not lone for professionals, but besides for an progressively wider scope of those interested," according to Roscosmos.
Jackie Wattles, Katharina Krebs, Olga Pavlova and Sara Spary contributed to this report.
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