The Russian Soyuz spacecraft docks with the International Space Station, and the space movie "Challenge" will start shooting

　　According to the Russian Sputnik News Agency, on October 5, the Russian "Alliance MS-" carrying Russian astronaut Anton Shkaprirov, actor Yulia Peresilid, and director Klim Sipenko The 19" spacecraft successfully docked with the International Space Station after more than three hours of flight.

　　Among them, Xipenko and Peresilide will shoot the feature film "Challenge" on the International Space Station, which will be the first film in the history of film to be shot in space by professional actors.

　　The film tells the story of a female doctor going into space to rescue an astronaut.

In the movie, the astronaut cannot return to Earth on the spacecraft to undergo surgery. Peresilide plays a doctor who was sent to the International Space Station to perform heart surgery for him.

Xipenko will serve as a cameraman and other roles on the space station.

　　According to SpaceNews, about half an hour of the film will be shot on the space station, and the rest will be shot on Earth after the mission.

Xipenko and Pelesilid will mainly shoot scenes in the Russian part of the space station, and some scenes will be shot in the American part of the space station, accompanied by NASA astronauts.

　　Prior to this, in 2008, private astronaut Richard Garriott (Richard Garriott) also shot a short film "The Highest Point of Fear" while on the International Space Station. This 8-minute humorous science fiction film tells Garriott and The story of several astronauts on the space station.

　　Among the trio who flew into space this time, Shkaprirov will be stationed at the space station with NASA astronaut Mark van der Hei and Russian astronaut Peter Dubrov who were on the space station in April. March 2022.

　　Chipenko and Peresilid will stay on the International Space Station for 12 days, and take the "Soyuz MS-18" spacecraft on October 17 to return to Earth together with the Russian astronaut Oleg Nowitzki who was stationed at the space station in April. .

　　It is worth noting that Mark Van der Hei, Peter Dubrov, and Oleg Nowitzki took the "Soyuz MS-18" spacecraft together to the International Space Station in April this year.

This means that Mark van der Hey and Peter Dubrov will stay in space for nearly a year.

　　The Paper Journalist Zhang Jing