After spending 12 days on the International Space Station (ISS) filming scenes for the first movie in space, a Russian actress and a film director returned to Earth on Sunday.
According to footage streamed live by the Russian space agency, Yulia Peresild and Klim Shipenko landed on Kazakhstan’s steppe at 0436 GMT, as planned.
They were returned to Earth by cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky, who had spent the previous six months in the space station.
“The descent vehicle of the crewed spacecraft Soyuz MS-18 is standing upright and is secure. The crew are feeling good!” Russian space agency Roscosmos tweeted.
The filmmakers had taken off from the Russia-leased Baikonur Cosmodrome in ex-Soviet Kazakhstan earlier this month to film scenes for “The Challenge” aboard the International Space Station with experienced cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov.
The narrative of the film, which has been kept mostly under wraps along with its budget, revolves around a physician who is sent to the International Space Station to save a cosmonaut.
Shkaplerov, 49, is claimed to appear in the video with two Russian cosmonauts who were already aboard the ISS.
