Russian Film Crew Bravely Shoots On The Space Station.

Your Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft took off from Baikonur in Kazakhstan and docked three hours later at the International Space Station. US actor Tom Cruise and NASA also want to shoot a film there. When the Soyuz team kicked off on Tuesday, the brilliance of show business was even more remarkable as television cameras were pointed at Peresild and his 12-year-old daughter, Anna. 

Actors came into space from the Kazakh steppes, where camels and squirrels roam, not from Hollywood studios, according to Russian website Komsomolskaya Pravda. The wife of actress Klipenko Sofia Karpunina noted that the director had to lose 15 kg in advance

Union moored with the ISS a little over three hours later. However, this happened a little later than planned as Soyuz's automatic docking system of course, failed, and the commander had to switch to manual control. Usually, Shkaplerov would have had the help of a flight engineer, but his two comrades would not be able to help him despite their rapid  flight training.

Eventually, the hatch connecting the Union to the ISS was opened, and the crew joined the seven others waiting in the Russian section of the ISS. "The hatcher is open! Everything is going according to plan," Roskosmos boss Dmitri Rogozin wrote on Twitter.

Although Shkaplerov will remain on board, the director and actress only have 12 days to film their scene in space, with Peresild playing a cardiac surgeon sent into orbit to save an astronaut. The report said that two Russian astronauts already on board, Oleg Novitsky and Peter Dubrov, will also star in the film.

Filming took place on the Russian part of the ISS, and the mission proved controversial in the Russian space industry. The feature film was the idea of ​​the head of the agency Roscosmos, who once fired the head of the agency's project team mission. Sergei Krikalev, a space mission veteran, returned to work amid mob anger over his dismissal a few days later.

Another astronaut, Mikhail Kornienko, told Russia he was one of many against it. "The ISS is not a place for artists, clowns, or tourists. It's a huge space laboratory, and you shouldn't interfere with professional work."

Russian television broadcaster Channel One funded the film, and its subsidiary Roskosmos has announced that it will not ask for money from the federal budget. Russia's space agency has had a difficult few years, with corruption looming over the construction of spaceports in the Far East.

His long-delayed Nauka laboratory finally reached the space station in the summer, 14 years after its scheduled launch.