In a historic first, Russia is set to launch an actor and a film director into space to make a feature film in orbit — a project the nation’s space chief has hailed as a chance to raise the prestige of Russia’s space program.
Actor Yulia Peresild and director Klim Shipenko are set to blast off Tuesday for the International Space Station in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft together with cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, a veteran of three space missions. After 12 days on the space outpost, Peresild and Shipenko will return to Earth with another Russian cosmonaut.
Peresild said it was difficult for her to adapt to the strict discipline and rigorous demands required during the training. “It didn’t come easy for me, to be honest,” she said. “For the first two weeks, I was learning it until 4 in the morning every night. There are so many acronyms, and if you don’t learn them all you won’t understand anything else further on.”
“Of course, we couldn’t make many things at the first try, and sometimes even at a third attempt, but it’s normal,” he said. Shkaplerov insisted that his entertainment-world crew mates are fully ready for the flight after their fast-track training. Some Russian media were skeptical about the plan and there were reportedly some doubts inside the Russian space program as well.
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