Tom Cruise is gearing up for the last word, gravity-defying stunt the place he will probably be hanging off of an area station because it orbits the Earth at an altitude of 254 miles (408 kilometers).

Indeed, the Hollywood star shouldn’t be solely heading to house for his subsequent movie location, however would be the first civilian to do a spacewalk outdoors the International Space Station (ISS). Cruise is understood for doing his personal stunts, and this may positively take the actor’s daredevil repute to new heights (fairly actually!).

In a current interview with BBC, Chairman of Universal Filmed Entertainment Group Donna Langley urged that Cruise will carry out the extravehicular exercise outdoors the house station as a part of the upcoming movie shoot that’s set to happen on board the ISS.

Universal reportedly signed off on the challenge, though the movie remains to be within the growth phases. The movie would be the first to be shot on the ISS, and Cruise is meant to board a rocket and head in direction of low Earth orbit for his position as a person tasked with saving Earth. Although the plot may be quite unoriginal, the movie would possibly break a couple of data throughout its shoot.

Cruise and director Doug Liman had pitched the movie to Langley in 2020, she revealed within the BBC interview. At the time, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine despatched out a tweet declaring the house company’s assist of the challenge. “NASA is excited to work with Tom Cruise on a film aboard the Space Station!,” he wrote. Reports had additionally urged that Cruise was working with Elon Musk’s personal house enterprise SpaceX on the challenge, assuming that the actor would possibly journey aboard considered one of their rockets to get to the house station. “Should be a lot of fun!” Musk responded to Bridenstine’s Twitter publish.

It’s not clear the place the movie stands right now by way of its timeline, however Langley mentioned throughout the interview that Cruise will probably be “the first civilian to do a spacewalk outside of the space station.”

The ISS welcomed its first personal astronaut crew earlier this 12 months, the place the 4 crew members spent 15 days residing and dealing within the microgravity atmosphere as a part of Axiom Space’s Ax-1 mission. NASA is already planning for the second personal crew to board the house station within the second quarter of 2023, and the house company despatched out a name for proposals for 2 extra personal astronaut missions to the ISS that might fly to low Earth orbit as early as late 2023. However, NASA stipulated that any mission idea that entails spacewalks performed by the personal astronaut mission won’t be accepted.

On the opposite hand, the all-private Polaris Dawn crew, which is scheduled to launch in December, features a spacewalk as a part of the mission itinerary. It’s not clear whether or not Cruise may have sufficient time to beat the Polaris crew for the title of first civilian spacewalk, with the crew having already been coaching for his or her journey to house since May.

The 60-year-old actor will nonetheless should put within the work to have the ability to go to house, and never simply depend on a profession of action-packed, corny and self-righteous films (aside from Vanilla Sky, that was nice). But significantly, spacewalks aren’t any joke, and Cruise higher be prepared for the microgravity atmosphere.

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