A Soyuz space capsule has landed this Sunday with a Russian cosmonaut and two filmmakers after a three-and-a-half-hour journey from the International Space Station.
The capsule, which descended under a red and white striped parachute after entering the Earth's atmosphere, landed in the early morning upright in the steppes of Kazakhstan, with
Oleg Novitskiy, Yulia Peresild and Klim Shipenko
on board.
"The crew is fine!"
the Russian space agency Roscomos reported on the social network Twitter immediately after landing.
The Peresild actress and film director Shipenko traveled to the space station on October 5 to shoot for
12 days
segments of a movie titled
Challenge
(
The Challenge
), in which an interpreted surgeon by Peresild go to the space station to save to a crew member in need of an urgent operation in orbit.
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The commander, Novitskiy, who has spent more than six months aboard the space station, plays the sick cosmonaut in the film.
The first to be evacuated from the capsule was Novitskiy.
Shipenko then came out and, in his first statements to the press, he said:
"take off and landing are impressive sensations
.
"
Cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, center, actress Yulia Peresild, left, and film director Klim Shipenko, right, shortly after the landing of the Russian Soyuz MS-18 space capsule, Kazakhstan, Sunday, 17 October 2021: Roscosmos Space Agency via AP
“Today I feel a little sad.
It seemed like 12 days would be a long time, but I didn't want to leave when it was all over, ”he
added.
Before being treated by a doctor, Peresild and Novitskiy were filmed in their seats.
According to the project, the material shot in space will be used to produce about a third of the film, 30-35 minutes, while the rest of the sequences will be filmed on land.
The film's release date is still uncertain.
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Seven astronauts remain aboard the space station: Russians Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov;
Americans Mark Vande Hei, Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur;
Thomas Pesquet, from the European Space Agency, and the Japanese Aki Hoshide.
With information from The Associated Press and Efe.