A Russian actor and a film director have rocketed into space on a landmark mission to make the world’s first movie in orbit.
Actor Yulia Peresild and director Klim Shipenko blasted off on Tuesday for the International Space Station (ISS) together with cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, a veteran of three space missions.
Peresild and Klimenko are set to film scenes of a new movie titled Challenge, in which a surgeon, played by Peresild, rushes to the space station to save a crew member with a heart condition.
After 12 days on the space outpost, they are set to return to Earth with another Russian cosmonaut.