• Russian film crew returns to Earth after shooting the first film in space

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    Russian film crew returns to Earth after shooting the first film in space

    Moscow: Famous Russian filmmaker and actress Yulia Peresild who went to the International Space Station to film the scenes of a movie named The Challenge in the space orbit have returned to the earth after 12 days of stay on Sunday.





    Peresild was accompanied by Russian film director Klim Shipenko for the same. They were safely returned back to the earth by Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, who was already there in the space station along with two others since past six months.





    Earlier, Peresild and Shipenko travelled to the International Space Station with veteran Roscosmos cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for the shoot.





    According to an announcement by the Russian space body Roscosmos, all the three members in the spacecraft safely landed in an isolated area near the western part of Kazakhstan on the early hours of Sunday at around 04.35 GMT.





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    The plot of the film, which has still been concealed from the media, reportedly revolves around a surgeon who is sent to the International Space Station to save a cosmonaut.





    Sources say that Shkaplerov, along with the other two Russian cosmonauts who were already there in the space station also played roles of cosmonauts in the film.





    After returning to the earth actor Yulia Peresild said that she is sad after returning back to the earth. She also added that those 12 days of stay felt like a very long period.





    If the project stays on track till the end than the film crew will be beating a Hollywood film project announced by Mission Impossible’s Tom Cruise, NASA and Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s SpaceX.





    The film is scheduled for a 2022 worldwide release.