Beating a rival Hollywood project was celebrated in Moscow with the premiere of the first feature film shot in space in Russian cinemas. “The Challenge”, the film is about a surgeon dispatched to the International Space Station (ISS) to save an injured cosmonaut. Russia sent an actor & a film director for a 12-day stint on the ISS to film scenes on board the orbiting laboratory in October 2021. A Hollywood project announced in 2020 by Tom Cruise in collaboration with NASA & Elon Musk’s SpaceX was beaten by the Russian crew. Vladimir Putin, the Russian President, has praised the … Continue reading Russia’s “The Challenge” Beats Hollywood to Space: World’s First Feature Film Shot in Orbit