Filming is underway on the primary feature-length film to be shot in house after Russian actor Yulia Sherepild and director Klim Shipenko docked on the . Their film, The Challenge, will function round 35-40 minutes of scenes filmed on the house station, in keeping with . The movie is a couple of surgeon (Sherepild) who goes on an emergency ISS mission to avoid wasting the lifetime of a cosmonaut (Shipenko).

The two cosmonauts who have been already on the ISS captured a shot as Peresild (or her character) emerged from the capsule and entered the station. Sherepild and Shipenko will movie scenes over the subsequent couple of weeks earlier than returning to Earth on October seventeenth.

Other initiatives have been filmed on the ISS, together with , and a brief known as Tom Cruise hoped to with the assistance of NASA and SpaceX, however the Russian staff beat him to the punch. Russia’s Roscosmos company introduced a plan to ship an actor to the ISS quickly after phrase emerged about Cruise’s film in May 2020.

Time will inform whether or not The Challenge is any good. Regardless, the creatives behind the undertaking have carved out their very own little slice of historical past.