Russian actors, film crew land safely on Earth after shooting first ever movie in space for 8 days

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A Russian film crew has landed safely back on Earth after shooting scenes of the first ever movie shot in space.</p>
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Klim Shipenko and actor Yulia Peresild left the International Space Station (ISS) and landed in Kazakhstan where they were greeted by a crew filming touchdown scenes.</p>
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The real life shooting had its own share of suspense and drama as on Friday the ISS unexpectedly tilted after a glitch in its thrusters, pausing filming. It was not thought to be part of the script, according to a<em> BBC</em> report.</p>
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A Russian trio said farewell to the station crew and closed the Soyuz MS-18 crew ship hatch at 4:41pm ET today. They undock at 9:14pm this evening. More… <a href="https://t.co/Hwwr4AEUI7">https://t.co/Hwwr4AEUI7</a> <a href="https://t.co/aXFOtG2H1O">pic.twitter.com/aXFOtG2H1O</a></p>
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In a farewell tweet from the ISS, Peresild showed off a weightless hairdo to actually prove that there were scenes were shot in space and not on Earth.</p>
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The module carrying Peresild and Shipenko, along with cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, parachuted down to Earth at about lunchtime on Sunday in the Kazakhstan steppe.</p>
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Their departure was not delayed by Friday's glitch, which resulted in lost positioning control for about half an hour.</p>
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The actor and director will now be taken to Russia's Star City training base for a 10-day rehab after spending 8 days in space.</p>
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Details of the plot of the movie titled Challenge have not been disclosed, but the scenes in the ISS appears to be that of Peresild's character as a doctor operating on a sick cosmonaut (Novitskiy, in a cameo role) whose medical condition is such that he cannot be treated on Earth, the BBC report said.</p>
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The Russian movie has also been in its own kind of space race with the USA as Hollywood star Tom Cruise is apparently part of a Hollywood filming-in-space project involving NASA and Elon Musk's SpaceX.</p>