The Russian crew that shot the first film in space has returned to Earth

The desire of the Russian team, which took off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on October 5, was to preempt the competing American project with Tom Cruise

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Julija Peresild, Photo: Screenshot
Julija Peresild, Photo: Screenshot
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The Russian actress and director who spent 12 days on the International Space Station (ISS) to shoot the first film in space landed on Earth this morning.

The Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft, with Yulia Peresilda, Klim Chipenko and cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky, touched down in the Kazakh steppe at exactly the predicted time, 4,36 am. The Russian space agency broadcast the Soyuz landing live.

Roskosmos announced on Twitter that the descent was successful and that "the crew is feeling good".

The cosmonaut and the film duo were welcomed at the landing site by the director of the Russian space agency Dimitriy Rogozin, Hina agency reports.

The desire of the Russian team, which took off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on October 5, was to preempt the competing American project with Tom Cruise.

Their film, tentatively titled "Challenge," depicts a female surgeon who travels to the ISS to save the life of a cosmonaut.

In the context of Russian-American rivalry, this cinematic adventure recalls the beginning of space exploration, 60 years after the then USSR sent the first man, Yuri Gagarin, into orbit.

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