Plot The flight of the film crew to the ISS for the shooting of the movie
NASA considered as the launch of the manned Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft; with the very first film crew on board went perfectly, TASS reports.
NASA said the takeoff took place at 1:55 p.m. local time (11:55 a.m. Moscow time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The US space agency also plans to show the spacecraft docking to the ISS and greetings from the Russian crew.
Previously, Soyuz-2.1a; with the Soyuz MS-19 ship launched successfully from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The main crew of the spacecraft includes cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov and the spaceflight participants, director Klim Shipenko and actress Yulia Peresild. According to the plan, the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft will fly to the orbital station in a two-tower pattern. It is estimated that he will reach it in about 3 hours and 17 minutes.
The actress and director flies to the ISS to film a space drama tentatively titled Challenge. The actors will spend 12 days in space. They plan to make a movie about a doctor helping an astronaut. The flight of the film crew will see Roscosmos overtake NASA and SpaceX, which also plan to send an actor and director into space.