Roscosmos to Send Director, Actress to Film Movie on ISS in October
MOSCOW (Roscosmos PR) — On May 13, 2021, the State Commission completed the candidate selection for participating in the spaceflight to film the motion picture tentatively called ‘Challenge’. As a result of medical and creative selection, the State Commission recommended to nominate Yulia Peresild and Klim Shipenko as the prime crew and Alena Mordovina and Alexey Dudin as the backup crew. The filming will take place at the International Space Station. The expedition is planned to launch on October 5, 2021 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft.
- Yulia Peresild is 36 years old, graduated from the directing department of GITIS, actress of the Theater of Nations, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation. Filmography: ‘The Edge’, ‘Battle for Sevastopol’, ‘Ugryum-River’, ‘Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes’ and others, received two Golden Eagle awards.
- Klim Shipenko is 37 years old, graduated from California University, acting studio, actor, stage director, and playwright. Filmography: ‘Salyut-7’, ‘Text’, ‘Serf’, etc.
- Alena Mordovina is 33 years old, graduated from the acting department of GITIS, actress of the New Drama Theater. Filmography and TV series: ‘Zhuki’, ‘Diplomat’, ‘Trigger’, ‘The Closer’, ‘Call DiCaprio!’ and others.
- Alexey Dudin is 40 years old, graduated from the Moscow Automechanical Institute, worked on TV, director of photography, cinematography in films and series ‘The Other Side of the Moon’, ‘The Spacewalker’, ‘Yolki-5’, ‘Going Vertical’, ‘T-34’ and others.
A special focus was put Galina Kairova’s participation in the project, who was invited to continue the selection process to the cosmonaut corps on a professional basis.
- Galina Kairova is 26 years old, graduated from Krasnokutsk Flight School of Civil Aviation, State University of Management, pilot.
All selected candidates will begin special training for space flight participants no later than June 1. Among other things, they will have to take centrifuge tests, vibration stand tests, perform introductory and training flights on a zero-gravity plane, undergo parachute training. All this will be covered by Channel One.
The feature film ‘Challenge’ is a part of a large-scale scientific and educational project, which also includes a series of documentaries to be shot about the rocket and space industry enterprises and specialists involved in the manufacturing of launch vehicles, spacecraft, and ground space infrastructure. The project will become a clear example of the fact that spaceflights are gradually becoming available not only for professionals, but also for an increasingly wider range of those interested.
In addition to educational tasks, a number of new technical and technological problems will be solved. As part of the ‘Challenge’ project, an open competition was announced at the end of 2020 to select the lead in the first feature film in space. At the creative stage of selection, preference was given to professional actresses however everyone could try their hand. In March 2021, 20 finalists of the competition were selected to pass the medical review.
The ‘Challenge’ is a joint project of Roscosmos, Channel One and the Yellow, Black and White studio.
Information about the film
- ‘CHALLENGE’ (tentative title)
- Genre: space drama
- Stage Director — Klim Shipenko (‘Serf’, ‘Salyut-7’, ‘Text’)
- Screenplay: Bakur Bakuradze, Klim Shipenko
- Producers: Denis Zhalinsky, Eduard Iloyan, Dmitry Rogozin, Sergey Titinkov, Alexey Trotsyuk, Vitaly Shlyappo, Konstantin Ernst.
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gloriouis soviet scratch that Russian Federation victory. our babes are great looking
… And they are. I once saw a pic of a Soviet mill maiden running a Kerney and Trecker milling machine from Lend Lease days. … What a babe! I should have gone to Ukraine and gotten me a Karkhevchenka to help me in my garage machine shop.
yes. we have a few cabin crew members who are Russian mostly at our place.
what do you think of this? good/bad/ what? I think generally its good
I think this show business is all too soon. I’d like to see a year or two of flights with NASA and more dock time at the ISS. But if now is the time to start, the Russians are acting in their character by trying to get out in front. It’s what they do. The problem with all these civilian flights so soon is should something go wrong on a civilian flight it’s going to set everything back longer than a more sane approach. I’d like to see more shake down cruises Jay Ferguson style.
No matter what, Summer 2021 is going to be Rocket Summer proudly made possible by the Space X corporation. In about a decade we might just see that chapter of the same name from the Martian Chronicles play out to one scale or another.
Half a decade.
Let’s see how lucky the dice throws are this year.
The difference is NASA only rolls the dice every year or so. Elon Musk rolls them 3-4 times per week.
NASA doesn’t even roll the dice once a year. More like once every 10 or 20 years.
That’s an exaggeration, more like once every 3 or 4 weeks. Maybe that’s why you guys always fall for SpaceX timelines you confuse period with frequency. 🙂
More skill than luck, but I take your point.
Hopefully the ISS will be able to handle the influx. I agree with Andrew some more operational flights with Dragon2 would be good.
Ever heard the song “Back In The USSR” by the Beatles? It was not intended to be a flattering song. Much like Spanish women, Russian and Ukrainian women have the reputation of being very lovely until they are about 30… then (after marriage and children) being, well, less than lovely… and much larger than they were…
Yulia has definitely got a young Faye Dunaway/Michelle Pfeiffer thing going on.
yeap its how she sits…good catch
Smooth move Russia. They have someone who knows what they’re doing in the PR department.
It’s hard to go wrong by putting some major babes front and center.
The Russian space program has always been good at using women for propaganda when it serves their purpose. Pity it doesn’t treat them the same as men when it actually comes to space flight.
wait until they are in skin tight outfits on the space station
meanwhile
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Landing both the Starship and Super Booster in the ocean will make both tests safer. Also SpaceX does have experience salvaging a booster from an accidental water landing so they could get useful engineering data from them if they survive. And if they don’t the only risk will be to the windows on South Padre Island IF the Super Booster blows up. Yes, a great advantage when you have an assembly line for your test vehicles.
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If they don’t recover the booster watch how fast the Chinese maritime militia fleet shows up to salvage that cluster of raptors.
its pretty deep water where they are tryiing to “water land”
the folks who will probably be trying to salvage it are BO or ULA 🙂
Jennifer. The Chinese could something crazy like Jennifer.
I suspect some USN/USCG ships will be patrolling in the area to make sure no ships are in danger. Since its landing is within the Economic Exclusion Zone of the USA they wouldn’t be able to grab it without causing some unpleasantness.
I hope Ms. Peresild, just before she escapes the doomed ISS in a hacked cargo Dragon, massages the scalp of one of the tied up male astronauts and announces, “You stupid good lookings, I’m too important to die”
of course she will be down to bra and panties 🙂 and high heels
Will they be filming the first sex scenes in Space ? I can just imagine the ISS shower scene