A Soyuz spacecraft carrying members of the Russian film crew docked at the international space station after a short flight from the earth today (October 5) and began a 12 day film shooting in orbit.
Soyuz was connected to the space station at 8:22 a.m. EDT. After four hours of flight, it was successfully launched from the Baikonur launch site in Kazakhstan. The Soyuz carried Russian Actress Yulia pereschild and director Krim shipenko to the space station together with senior astronaut Anton shkaplelov, who commanded the capsule. Pereschild and shipenko will shoot scenes for a space film called challenge on the space station over the next 12 days.
“I still think it’s just a dream and I’m still sleeping,” pereschild, 37, told Russian channel 1 at a TV welcome ceremony.
Shipenko agreed.
“Yes, it’s almost impossible to think that all this has become a reality,” said the 38 year old director.
This rapid orbital rendezvous allowed Soyuz to orbit the earth for two weeks to reach the international space station. Under the close watch of Sika plerov, the Soyuz arrived at the international space station completely automatically. Soyuz is also expected to dock in the lasvitt module facing earth above the space station, but communication problems forced hikapolev to manually control the capsule to dock the spacecraft.
Pereschild and shipenko shot some scenes for their film during the approach, which made the Russian flight control team joke that the last minute plot was to add suspense to the plot.
“In order to make your movie more dramatic, the ending is a little dramatic,” said Dmitry Rogozin, Roscosmos director, to shkaplerov by radio after the successful docking.
The space station was flying over the Philippines when the capsule docked.
“Therefore, the Soyuz ms-19 has safely arrived at the port, and a Russian Actress and her producer and director are making a 12 day film on the international space station,” NASA spokesman Rob navias said in a live comment.
At the welcoming ceremony of the space station, pereschild received a congratulatory call from the famous astronaut Valentina treshkova, who became the first space woman to perform the Vostok 6 mission in 1963.
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“Everyone is very excited from sadness to happiness,” treshkova said of the launch in Russian and translated on NASA television. “We are proud of you,” she added, adding that she had only one wish for the crew.
Treshkova said: “everything should be nominal, which is our best wish.”. “We hope your dream will come true and we will wait for you on earth.”
Before boarding the space station, pereschild and shipenko had a brief exchange with ground controllers. They said they liked the sunrise and sunset they saw in flight.
The two will spend 12 days filming “challenge” on the space station. Pereschild will play a surgeon and be sent to the space station to treat a dirty attack of an astronaut at the spacewalk center. Astronaut Oleg Nowitzki will play the sick space traveler. Most of the shots will be taken in the Russian part of the space station, but some scenes will be taken in the earth observation dome connected to some quiet nodes in the United States.
When two flight participants leave the Russian part of the space station, they must be escorted.
Nowitzki and Peter Dubrov photographed the approach of the Soyuz capsule from the space station. Dubrov and shkaplelov will also play in the film.
The filmmaker will return to earth with Nowitzki on October 17. Nowitzki will end his month long trip to the space station. In order to cooperate with the first professional film made on the space station, Dubrov and American astronaut mark Vande Hei arrived with novitsky in April, and their mission had to be extended for six months.
They are now expected to return home with shkaplelov in April. This extension will make van der Hei’s space trip the longest of all American astronauts in history.
Pereschild, shipenko and shkapplerov took off at 4:55 a.m. EDT (0855 GMT or 1:55 p.m. local time) on Tuesday (October 5) by taking off in the alliance 2.1a rocket specially designed for movies.