After spending 12 days in space shooting scenes for the first movie in orbit called “Challenge”, a Russian actress and a director along with a cosmonaut returned to Earth on Sunday at 12:35am EDT (10:05 am IST) in Kazakhstan. Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos along with actress Yulia Peresild and producer-director Klim Shipenko, departed the International Space Station in their Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft, according to NASA.The trio will return to the recovery staging city in Karaganda, Kazakhstan, by Russian helicopter, before boarding a Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center aircraft to return to their training base in Star City, Russia.
Touchdown after 191 days in space for @Novitskiy_ISS and 12 days in space for two Russian filmmakers! More... https://t.co/CrQl3O1BUl pic.twitter.com/kzXlCTr0og
— International Space Station (@Space_Station) October 17, 2021
The movie's plot, which has been mostly kept under wraps along with its budget, centres around a female surgeon who is dispatched to the ISS to save a cosmonaut.
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