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Weird Wide Web - Movie to be shot in space─── 15:12 Wed, 29 Sep 2021
Racing to beat NASA, an actress and a film director will blast off next month for the International Space Station, where they will film “The Challenge.”
The first satellite in space, the first dog, the first man, the first woman and now, if all goes as planned, the first movie. Russia took a step closer on Thursday to claiming another record in space when a commission of medical and safety experts approved a plan for an actress and a director to blast off early next week to film the first full-length, fictional movie in space.
The movie, called “The Challenge,” tells of a doctor launched on short notice to the International Space Station to save the life of a cosmonaut. If filmed on schedule next week, it would beat Hollywood to low-Earth orbit. NASA announced last year plans by Tom Cruise to film on the station. Russia’s space agency Roscosmos then announced its moviemaking ambition.
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