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...
MOSCOW — 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.
Peresild said it was difficult for her to adapt to the strict discipline and rigorous demands required during the training. The part of the training that Peresild liked the most was a flight imitating weightlessness, in which a plane goes into a steep dive to allow those inside about 20 seconds in zero gravity. She added that she realizes that zero gravity in orbit could be completely different and is gearing up for her first morning in orbit.
One of Shipenko’s previous films, “Salyut-7,” told the real story of a challenging 1985 mission of two Soviet cosmonauts sent to resuscitate an abandoned space station. “No one had that experience before: to prepare people who had no relation whatsoever to the space program for a space flight,” he said, adding that it could be useful in the future if a need arises to urgently send an outside expert into orbit.
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