VYZOV

Oct. 11, 2021

Sixty years after the Soviet Union beat its rival superpower United States to become the first state to send a human into space, its successor Russia has trumped the US in another kind of space race — shooting the first feature film in orbit.

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  • Actor Yulia Peresild and director Klim Shipenko travelled to International Space Station (ISS) in a Soyuz MS-19 aircraft to film about 35 to 40 minutes of footage from the movie titled Vyzov, or The Challenge. With them was veteran cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov.

  • Vyzov is about a cosmonaut who loses consciousness after being hit by space debris in the middle of a spaceflight. It is the first feature-length fiction film shot in outer space.

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