The first professional movie crew to fly into area has actually returned to Earth after 12 days of shooting a movie aboard the International Space Station.Russian actress Yulia Peresild and producer Klim Shipenko landed with cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of the Russian federal area corporation Roscosmos on Sunday (Oct. 17). The three came down aboard the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft to a goal at 12:35 a.m. EDT (0435 GMT or 10:35 a.m. regional time) on the steppe of Kazakhstan.The landing concluded 191 days in space for Novitskiy, who wrapped up his stay on the station by playing a bit part in the movie Peresild and Shipenko were there to movie. Russian film team & & cosmonaut return from space stationIn photos: Russian film team launches to the International Space StationImage 1 of 3Russian actress Yulia Peresild (left), cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy (center) and director Klim Shipenko are invited back to Earth after their effective Soyuz pill landing on the steppes of Kazakhstan on Oct. 17, 2021. (Image credit: NASA TELEVISION)Image 3 of 3A Soyuz MS-18 area pill bring Russian actress Yulia Peresild, director Klim Shipenko and cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy returns to Earth under a parachute during an effective landing in Kazakhstan on Oct. 17, 2021. Vande Hei will have finished the single longest spaceflight by an astronaut in U.S. history.Actress Yulia Peresild and producer Klim Shipenko, together with cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, film scenes for “Вызов” (“Challenge” in English) on the International Space Station.
The very first professional film crew to fly into space has actually returned to Earth after 12 days of shooting a film aboard the International Space Station.Russian starlet Yulia Peresild and manufacturer Klim Shipenko landed with cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of the Russian federal space corporation Roscosmos on Sunday (Oct. 17). The three came down aboard the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft to a touchdown at 12:35 a.m. EDT (0435 GMT or 10:35 a.m. local time) on the steppe of Kazakhstan.The landing concluded 191 days in area for Novitskiy, who wrapped up his stay on the station by playing a small role in the motion picture Peresild and Shipenko existed to film. A joint production of Roscosmos, the Russian tv station Channel One and the studio Yellow, Black and White, “Вызов” (“Challenge” in English) follows the story of a surgeon (Peresild) who is released to the station to perform emergency surgical treatment on a cosmonaut (Novitskiy). Video: Touchdown! Russian movie crew & & cosmonaut return from area stationIn images: Russian movie team launches to the International Space StationImage 1 of 3Russian starlet Yulia Peresild (left), cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy (center) and director Klim Shipenko are welcomed back to Earth after their effective Soyuz capsule landing on the steppes of Kazakhstan on Oct. 17, 2021. (Image credit: Roscosmos)Image 2 of 3Russias Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft lands in Kazakhstan from the International Space Station with cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos, actress Yulia Peresild and producer Klim Shipenko on Sunday, Oct. 17, 2021. (Image credit: NASA TELEVISION)Image 3 of 3A Soyuz MS-18 space pill bring Russian actress Yulia Peresild, director Klim Shipenko and cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy returns to Earth under a parachute throughout an effective landing in Kazakhstan on Oct. 17, 2021. (Image credit: Roscosmos)Shipenko served a number of behind-the-scene roles while on orbit, including director, makeup artist, sound editor and cinematographer. Cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anton Shkaplerov, the latter having released with Peresild and Shipenko on board Soyuz MS-19 on Oct. 5, also took part in the filming.Novitskiy, Peresild and Shipenko began their journey house with the undocking of Soyuz MS-18 from the Nauka multipurpose lab module on Saturday at 9:13 p.m. EDT (0135 GMT on Sunday). The spacecraft performed a deorbit burn and shed its orbital and propulsion modules prior to re-entering Earths atmosphere and coming down under a parachute for a soft landing.Recovery teams remained in location to help the crew out of the descent capsule and perform preliminary medical checks. Novitskiy, Peresild and Shipenko were then to be zipped helicopter to the Kazakh city of Karaganda prior to a Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center aircraft carries them back to Star City, outside of Moscow.Russian actress Yulia Peresild (center), director Klim Shipenko (2nd from right) and cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy (ideal) quote farewell to their Russian crewmates Anton Shkaplerov (2nd from left) and Pyotr Dubrov before returning to Earth on Oct. 17, 2021. (Image credit: Roscosmos/Anton Shkaplerov through Twitter)The departure of Soyuz MS-18 marked completion of Expedition 65 and the start of Expedition 66 aboard the space station. Led by Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency (ESA), the station is now crewed by cosmonauts Shkaplerov and Dubrov, astronauts Shane Kimbrough, Megan McArthur and Mark Vande Hei with NASA and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Aki Hoshide.Dubrov and Vande Hei were initially arranged to land with Novitskiy on Soyuz-18, but to accommodate the movie project, their stays were extended for another six months. Dubrov and Vande Hei will now land with Shkaplerov in March, after 365 days in space. Vande Hei will have completed the single longest spaceflight by an astronaut in U.S. history.Actress Yulia Peresild and producer Klim Shipenko, together with cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, film scenes for “Вызов” (“Challenge” in English) on the International Space Station. (Image credit: Roscosmos television)Roscosmos initially revealed the film project in November 2020. Peresild, 37, was picked for the role from a swimming pool of 3,000 applicants and 20 finalists. Together with her backup, Alena Mordovina, Roscosmos stated that the casting likewise evaluated a brand-new model for selecting and training people under an abbreviated schedule.An achieved starlet who has appeared in acclaimed Russian movies and television series, as well as acted upon stage at the Malaya Bronnaya theater in Moscow, Peresild ended up being the very first professional actor to fly into space. Throughout her time on orbit, William Shatner (Star Treks Captain Kirk) ended up being the second flying aboard a Blue Origin suborbital flight.Peresild also ended up being the 5th Russian woman to fly in space out of the 71 female astronauts worldwide.Shipenko, 38, is a movie director, producer, star and film writer. His earlier credits include the 2017 function movie “Salyut 7,” which was loosely based upon the genuine 1985 objective to the last of the Soviet Unions Salyut-class area stations.The Soyuz MS-18 team mission spot. (Image credit: Roscosmos/spacepatches. nl)Novitskiy, 50, has actually now finished three space missions for an overall of 531 days in area. Throughout Expedition 64/65, he conducted three spacewalks, logging 22 hours and 38 minutes operating in the vacuum of area. He was formerly a member of the Expedition 33/34 and Expedition 50/51 teams in 2013 and 2017, respectively.Before “Challenge,” Soviet-era cosmonauts shot aboard Soyuz T-9 and inside the Salyut 7 spaceport station for the Russian 1984 narrative movie “Return from Orbit.” Twenty-four years later on, privately-funded astronaut Richard Garriott shot “Apogee of Fear,” a brief sci-fi film set aboard the International Space Station.The Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft took a trip an overall of 80.9 million miles (130 million km) while completing 3,056 orbits of Earth.Follow collectSPACE.com on Facebook and on Twitter at @collectSPACE. Copyright 2021 collectSPACE.com. All rights booked.
