Film crew arrives in Moscow after their space mission

Society & Culture October 17, 2021, 19:03

The film crew will go to Zvezdny Gorodok for rehabilitation

MOSCOW, October 17. /TASS/. The plane with Russian cosmonaut Oleg Notitsky and members of the film crew, actress Yulia Peresild and folm director Klim Shipenko, who returned from the International Space Station (ISS) earlier on Sunday, onboard has landed at the Chkalovsky airdrome near Moscow, according to the Flightradar service.

According to Flightradar, the Tu-204-300 plane of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center took off from Kazakhstan’s Karaganda at 17:52 local time (14:52) Moscow time.

The film crew will go to Zvezdny Gorodok for rehabilitation.

The Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft with Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky, actress Yulia Peresild and film director Klim Shipenko on board undocked from the ISS at 4:14 Moscow time on Sunday. The descent module touched the ground in Kazakhstan at 07:35 Moscow time.

Peresild and Shipenko were shooting the first-ever movie in outer space about a woman doctor who travels to the orbital outpost to save a cosmonaut’s life. The film is a joint project of Roscosmos, Russia’s Channel One and the Yellow, Black and White studio. Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov, Oleg Novitsky and Pyotr Dubrov also have parts in the movie. Shkaplerov and Dubrov continue space mission onboard the ISS.

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