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The Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle with the Soyuz MS-19 manned spacecraft, with actress Yulia Peresild and director Klim Shipenko on board, successfully started at 11:55 on October 5 from the Baikonur cosmodrome. Broadcast launch led Roscosmos.
The flight, led by cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, will last more than three hours, after which the spacecraft must dock with the ISS. At the International Space Station, the actress and director will be filming scenes for the cinema for the first time. They will be included in the film “Challenge”. Peresild and Shipenko will spend 12 days at the station, after which they will return to Earth, transfers Interfax.
On March 9, the state corporation “Roscosmos” reported that 20 finalists were selected to participate in the filming of the film under the working title “Challenge”. The picture is being created jointly by Roskosmos, Channel One and the studio Yellow, Black and White.
On March 14, the head of the Glavkosmos company (part of Roskosmos) Dmitry Loskutov said that the filming of the film on the ISS would be financed by Channel One, and budget money would not be spent on them. According to him, part of the work will be paid for by Glavkosmos, but at the expense of funds received from commercial activities.
Currently, the ISS crew consists of Roskosmos cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky, Pyotr Dubrov and NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hai, who arrived on the ISS on April 9 on the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft, and also arrived on the ISS on the Crew Dragon-2 spacecraft on April 24 NASA astronauts Megan MacArthur and Shane Kimbrough; European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Thomas Pesce; and JAXA astronaut Akihiko Hoshide.
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