On August 29, 2018, an air pressure drop was detected on the International Space Station (ISS), triggering alarms and causing the crew to search for the source.

The leak was traced to the Russian Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft, which had arrived at the station in June 2018 and was docked to the ISS at the time.

A small 2-millimeter hole was found in the orbital module of the Soyuz, covered by decorative fabric and hidden from direct view.

The crew applied Kapton tape as a temporary seal while plans for more durable repairs were made.

The Russian cosmonauts later applied an epoxy-based sealant and medical gauze to ensure a more permanent fix from inside the Soyuz module.

The pressure drop was minor and did not pose an immediate danger to the crew, but the situation was closely monitored by both Russian and US mission control.

An investigation was launched into the cause of the hole, with early theories including either a manufacturing defect or deliberate damage on the ground or in orbit.

Russian officials initially suggested the hole was made by a drill, but further details about how and why this occurred were not released publicly.

By September 2018, the sealed area was holding air pressure, and the incident was considered resolved from a technical perspective.

The Soyuz spacecraft later undocked and returned safely to Earth in December 2018, carrying astronauts without incident.

The air leak episode raised questions about spacecraft manufacturing and safety protocols, leading to greater scrutiny in subsequent Soyuz missions.

No crew members were injured during the incident, and the ISS maintained normal operations throughout and following the repair.

The crew of the film “Challenge” worked on the International Space Station (ISS) to conduct an experiment simulating a surgical operation in weightlessness, according to the head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, at a presentation of the “Challenge” scientific and educational project in Dubai.

Filming for “The Challenge” took place 400 km from Earth on board the ISS and was the first feature film shot in space, with Julia Peresild receiving the main female role and Klim Shipenko directing.

Julia Peresild and Director Klim Shipenko, representing creative professions, went on a short expedition to the ISS with plans to return to Earth with flight engineer Oleg Novitsky.

Director Klim Shipenko stated that the genre of the film would be a drama, where Peresild’s character, a doctor, travels into space to provide medical assistance to an astronaut, with part of the story devoted to the mission of rescuing a crew member.

The selection process for the team was very rigorous, and training was conducted under the guidance of experienced mentors, including simulations of various emergency situations.

The “film crew” underwent physical and technical training, learned to work in zero gravity, and had to get used to the same routines as cosmonauts, including eating space food, dealing with constant equipment noise, and never turning off the station lights.

They practiced reaching tools with pointers and hand-piloted the ship, with Julia Peresild commenting on learning scripts, adjusting to roles, and experiencing acting in the unique ISS environment.

All crew members had to familiarize themselves with the shooting schedule in advance, knowing which scenes would be filmed, who would participate, and the designated ISS locations for each shot.

During this period, Japanese tourists also visited the ISS with Soyuz MS-20 commander Alexander Misurkin, their visit carefully prepared and trained just like professional cosmonauts.

Anton Shkaplerov described being ready for the moon or even Mars, and expressed excitement for future space projects.

Oleg Novitsky noted that the experience of Klim and Julia helped the crew overcome challenges during space filming, as only a small part of the full movie was shot on the station itself.

After filming, the Russian film crew was scheduled to return to Earth on October 17.

After that, it is believed that there will be a set of commercial stations orbiting the Earth, including one of the Axiom Space, which will include the new SEE-1 module.

If launched, it would be the world’s first content and entertainment studios and a multi-purpose arena to run in space.

Russian film crew returns to Earth after filming on the International Space Station.

Their journey is expected to take more than three hours.

Russia says it is the first feature film to be shot in space and not in studios on Earth.

The United States is also planning to shoot a film there, but no date has been set.

However, critics say the project was expensive and the money would have been better spent on research.

Russian Yulia Beresild is the first actress in history to depict a movie in space (Video).

According to press reports, Yulia’s family did not believe in her talent, nor did they expect their daughter, who had never visited the theater, to eventually attend drama school and go to fame and then to space.

On the experience, Yulia said in press statements and social media posts that “things will not be on the same level as on the ground.

It’s almost impossible to believe that all of this is true.”
The Russian film The Challenge tells the story of a female doctor, Yulia Beresild, who is called to the space station to rescue a crew member.

It is reported that two astronauts, Oleg Novitsky and Piotr Dobrov, will participate in a part of the film.

Yulia and Klim are expected to face restrictions during filming in space, due to the limited number of people on the set.

The current situation suggests that there will be no staff of assistants, so she will put on her own makeup and make her own clothes.

Shibenko will perform all technical tasks such as photography, lighting and sound adjustment, as well as his duties as a director.

Bin Nashuq said that in preparation for this qualitative task, the UAE team has been qualified, since August last year, by conducting experiments for 70 days, before the start of the mission, which began on November 4, 2021, which helped them to perform their tasks to the fullest and reach the current stage of success, and that they have hired a team of psychological experts to study the performance of pioneers to ensure good results.

Dima Al Zuhair, director of the secondary department at Al Maaref Private School, said the school intends to include this trip in its teaching and learning programs by organizing educational sessions on space and aviation, with a special focus on the long space flight and its importance.

She pointed out that the interest of students in space and technology is taking a large space different from the past, as the UAE achieved the dreams of Arabs and achieved precedence in this field.

SEE’s entertainment unit is being built by Axiom Space, which is working on its own tourism and research unit for the station, and is also scheduled to launch and join the station in 2024.

NASA has committed to funding the old station until 2030, and Russia has confirmed its renewed commitment by launching a new laboratory unit.

SEE says the unit will allow artists, producers and creators to develop, produce, record and broadcast live content.

Adding a dedicated entertainment space to Axiom’s commercial capabilities in the form of SEE-1 will expand the station’s service as a platform for a global user base and highlight the range of opportunities offered by the new space economy.

Russia is preparing to launch an actress and director into space to produce a feature film in orbit.

Actor and director Klim Shepenko told a news conference before the film's crew left for Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan: "This film is about the story of an ordinary person, a doctor who has nothing to do with space exploration and has never thought about it, who is offered to travel to the International Space Station and save the life of an astronaut."

Astronaut Commander Anton Shkaplerov said: “I’m not going to star in it but I still need to know how to make a film in an unusual place like outer space," and actress Yulia Perisild said she learned how to work as a beauty artist and fashion designer for herself.

On August 29, 2018, controllers in Houston and Moscow detected a drop in pressure on the International Space Station, indicating a possible air leak.

The leak was traced to a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, specifically the Soyuz MS-09, which was docked to the station at the time.

A small, 2-millimeter hole was found in the orbital compartment of the Soyuz, which was causing the slow air leak.

The crew quickly located the source of the leak and applied tape as a temporary fix to slow the loss of air.

Russian cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev and his crewmates, including astronaut Alexander Gerst and Serena Auñón-Chancellor, worked under the guidance of mission control to apply an initial patch.

Later, a more permanent fix was made using gauze soaked in epoxy resin, stopping the air leak entirely.

Flight controllers and experts concluded the leak was not a result of a micrometeoroid or orbital debris strike, as initially suspected.

Investigations suggested the hole was made from the inside, potentially during manufacturing on Earth.

Russian officials hypothesized that a technician drilled the hole accidentally and patched it, but the repair failed in orbit.

There was no immediate threat to the crew’s safety, although the leak prompted swift action and careful monitoring.

As a result of the investigation, Russian authorities initiated a review of spacecraft manufacturing and quality control procedures.

The crew members aboard the ISS remained safe, and normal station operations continued after the leak was sealed.

The sealed Soyuz capsule was later used successfully to return crew to Earth.

Russian space agency Roscosmos and NASA cooperated throughout the incident to ensure the safety of the astronauts onboard.

The official inquiry into the exact cause of the hole was ongoing for several months.

On August 29, 2018, an air pressure drop was detected on the International Space Station (ISS), triggering alarms and causing the crew to search for the source.

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The International Space Station currently has seven astronauts on board who were forced to take evasive action after the Russian missile strike destroyed one of its own satellites. The debris cloud has created an international political storm here on Earth. Picture: NASA/AFP

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Russia has admitted blowing up one of its satellites during a missile test, causing a space junk storm that had the International Space Station (ISS) on high alert. But it denied endangering astronauts on board the station.

The international space community has criticised Russia for conducting what the US called the “dangerous and irresponsible” weapons test, but Russia maintains the targeted strike posed no threat to the station.

However, NASA rejects this assessment and repeated Thursday that there remained increased risk to the facility and astronauts from the orbiting debris.

Russian spacecraft Tselina-Dsince had orbited Earth since 1982. After the Russian defence ministry first announced that the satellite had been destroyed, Russia’s Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu was quoted by Russian news agencies as saying: “The fragments that formed do not pose any threat to space activity”.

But the explosion created a debris* cloud that forced the International Space Station’s crew to take evasive* action.

The crew aboard the space station — currently four Americans, a German and two Russians — had to take shelter in their return ships, the standard “safe haven” alarm procedure in the event of an emergency that might force evacuation*.

This 2011 artist’s impression released by the European Space Agency shows the debris field in low Earth orbit, which extends to 2000km above the Earth’s surface. The destroyed Russian satellite has added at least 1500 new pieces of space junk. Picture: AFP

As a result of the explosion, there are at least 1500 new pieces of space junk orbiting the planet at high speed. Hundreds of thousands of smaller pieces of orbital debris could be created in the future.

“Over the next few weeks we will be able to establish high fidelity* tracking on this debris, which will help provide vital space surveillance* for secure and safe operations in space,” said LeoLabs Australia Managing Director and former Air Commodore Terry van Haren.

“If a deliberate act, this would be a very irresponsible action by the Russian Federation. At an altitude of 480km … (the) debris field will pose a significant risk to all operators for decades to come, including the International Space Station, which sits at 420km and Starling at 540km.

“It is probably at the worst altitude you could imagine, above the ISS at 420 km and just under where the mega-constellations* are setting up. What were they thinking?”

LeoLabs is closely monitoring the debris field via this Costa Rica Space Radar array. Picture: LeoLabs

In other words, the debris is dangerously close to the altitude of the famous space station. The ISS could be threatened every 93 minutes, according to Seradata, and it is likely the debris will be orbiting Earth for at least 10 years.

The Russian weapon was only the fourth ever missile to hit a spacecraft from the ground.

In a Pentagon briefing, spokesman John Kirby told reporters the US didn’t receive advance notice of the strike and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken gave Russia a verbal blast in response.

“We condemn Russia’s reckless test of a direct-ascent anti-satellite missile against its own satellite, creating space debris that risks astronauts’ lives, the integrity of the International Space Station, and the interests of all nations,” he said.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, pictured in Nairobi, Kenya, on November 17, has roundly criticised the Russian weapons test in space. Picture: AFP

Flinders University “space lawyer” Professor Melissa de Zwart called it “particularly irresponsible” and its effect on the ISS “significant”.

The move reignites concerns about the growing space arms race, from the development of satellites capable of booting others out of orbit to laser weapons. In his strongly-worded remarks, Secretary Blinken said the danger was far from over.

“The long-lived debris created by this dangerous and irresponsible test will now threaten satellites and other space objects that are vital to all nations’ security, economic, and scientific interests for decades to come,” he said.

“Russia, despite its claims of opposing the weaponisation of outer space, is willing to jeopardise* the long-term sustainability of outer space and imperil* the exploration and use of outer space.”

The United States was discussing its response with partners, Secretary Blinken added.

Harvard astrophysicist* Dr Jonathan McDowell told AFP such tests amounted to “sabre rattling*”.

“The feeling among people in the space industry is that we have way too much debris up there already — to deliberately generate more is just inexcusable,” he said.

There are currently more than 4500 satellites whizzing around the planet, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists, with companies like SpaceX planning to launch up to tens of thousands more, as the private space industry experiences rapid growth.

Russia is increasingly flexing its muscles in space as it seeks to reassert global influence under the leadership of Vladimir Putin.

Under the leadership of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Soviet Union is increasingly flexing its muscles in space. Picture: AFP

“China and Russia are increasingly building space into their military capabilities,” Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines said at a space seminar in Washington last week.

Despite these tensions, the United States and Russia have maintained strong space ties since the end of the Cold War, co-operating closely on the ISS, which they built together.

NASA administrator Bill Nelson said he was “outraged” by the missile test.

“With its long and storied history in human spaceflight, it is unthinkable that Russia would endanger not only the American and international partner astronauts on the ISS, but also their own cosmonauts” as well as taikonauts aboard the Chinese space station, Mr Nelson said in a statement.

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  • debris: remaining pieces of something that has been destroyed
  • evasive action: doing something to avoid potential danger
  • evacuation: urgent, immediate removal and departure of people to avoid an imminent threat
  • high fidelity: accurate reproduction of an effect
  • surveillance: observation, monitoring, scrutiny
  • mega-constellations: low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite networks in the hundreds and thousands
  • jeopardise: risk, endanger, threaten
  • imperil: see jeopardise above
  • astrophysicist: expert in study of stars and other objects in space using physical laws
  • sabre rattling: exaggerated show of power, a deliberate display of force or intent

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In a crowd, it would be very easy to lose track of Brendan Hall. The 28-year-old Brooklyn filmmaker has a very unassuming presence in a room, and he prefers it that way. As someone who makes documentaries, he would rather play observer, and focus attention on the subject at hand. Earnest and soft-spoken, he’s the one asking questions, for someone else’s life story, open to hearing something new and unheard.

But alas, on an extremely frigid February afternoon at the The Daily Beast’s office’s in New York, the tables were turned—and Hall found himself as the interviewee, not the interviewer as he is often accustomed to being. And that’s because sometime in the next year or so, Hall is going into space.

He’ll be riding around in SpaceX’s Starship for six days as he and eight others take a trip around the moon and come back to Earth in the first civilian moon mission ever. As a member of the dearMoon mission conceived and financed by Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, Hall will be part of a very small group of people who have had the privilege of going into space—and an smaller group who have had a chance to swing into lunar orbit and take a look at Earth’s only natural satellite as only Apollo astronauts have.

Hall is in very eclectic company too. The crew includes celebrities like DJ Steve Aoki and K-pop star Choi Seung Hyun (better known as TOP). Not everyone is an artist per se, such as Tim Dodd, a science communicator better known as Everyday Astronaut on YouTube; and backup crew member Kaitlyn Farrington, a snowboarder.

SpaceX’s Starship Explodes in Fireball Soon After Launch

Most of his crewmates were with him at Brownsville, Texas this week to watch SpaceX try to send Starship into orbit for the first time—which ended in a pretty wild explosion after the Starship failed to separate from the Super Heavy rocket (the launch marked the first time the two structures have ever been flown together). To be fair, SpaceX anticipated a roughly 50 percent chance of success, and afterward Hall would tell me that “seeing this test made me more confident than ever” in SpaceX and the dearMoon mission. “The energy has been really positive and exciting.”

“I’m still not completely sure why I was chosen,” Hall told me. But he’s adamant that he doesn’t intend for this opportunity to go to waste.

Not Your Average Origin Story

When it was announced in February 2017, dearMoon was a much different concept. Maezawa had bought a Crew Dragon mission (the capsule currently used to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station and back) to take him and one friend on a trip around the moon. The mission was originally supposed to launch in late 2018, using a Falcon Heavy rocket. Few people thought the timeline was realistic, though, partly since Crew Dragon wasn’t even operational at the time (development delays meant the spacecraft would not even fly humans into space until 2020).

In 2018, it was announced that the mission would forge ahead much later using Starship, the interplanetary spacecraft that SpaceX hopes will one day take humans to the moon and Mars—and which has been under development in literally explosive fashion.

All the while, Maezawa kept changing his mind for who would accompany him on dearMoon. He expanded the crew to eight. In 2019, he publicly invited director Damien Chazelle (Whiplash, First Man, Babylon) to come with him (Chazelle said he’d have to think about it, and eventually it was confirmed he wouldn’t be going). Maezawa then flirted with plans to make the mission a search for a “life partner,” soliciting applications from over 27,000 women for a chance to go with him on the mission. A “matchmaking documentary” would be filmed. Everyone was thoroughly creeped out, and Maezawa cancelled those plans in 2020.

All of that paved the path to the version of the mission that opened the doors for Hall. Maezawa decided to pivot the mission into something centered around arts and creativity: dearMoon would take Maezawa and eight working artists to the moon. “I'm very thrilled to have these amazing people join me on my journey to the moon and excited to see what inspiring creations they come up with in space,” a quote from Maezawa reads on the dearMoon website.

dearMoon has finally settled down and turned Maezawa’s quixotic ambitions into something somewhat realistic. Yes, Starship still needs to be proven out (and its explosive end on the April 20th flight test leaves much to be desired). But, at least Maezawa has his crew.

Hall will be the first to tell you he may not be the most obvious candidate for this kind of mission, given that his experience with filmmaking is more terrestrial than extraterrestrial. His teenage years growing up in Marlborough, Connecticut were spent filming his buddies doing skateboard tricks and venturing out into the lakeside wilderness. Later, when he attended New York University to study film, Hall took on as many freelance jobs as he could. “I was filming everything,” from sweet sixteen birthday parties to short films and clips for big foundations, he said.

In the middle of college, Hall began to intern at a couple production companies in LA. And that’s where his love of nature documentary filmmaking really solidified. Like many in the area, he loved the proximity to nearby hiking trails, as well as the opportunity to trek to national parks like Yosemite and Sequoia. He once visited the Grand Canyon and sat to watch the long sunset turn into a clear night sky lit up by the Milky Way.

“There was lightning cracking through the Milky Way and shooting stars everywhere,” he said. “It was just like magic on Earth. And that’s when I just realized that I love nature. I wanted to make films in nature and tell stories and try to travel.

“This is what makes me feel alive,” he added. “It makes me want to explore the world around me.”

One of the biggest projects of his career was his work on the 2017 documentary Bill Nye: Science Guy, directed by David Alvarado and Jason Sussberg. Hall was flown out to Siberia to shoot scientists looking for wooly mammoth bones with Stewart Brand, and lived on an ice sheet in Greenland with Bill Nye for 10 days. Another very formative experience was actually part of a branded film project for General Electric, which sent Hall to the Brazilian Amazon to film a mobile medical complex treating indigenous tribes and giving them medical care.

That trip included flying in a Blackhawk military helicopter with two doctors and visiting indigenous tribe members in the middle of extremely remote areas. As the helicopter picked up individuals and flew them into the air, Hall could see the absolute wonder and bewilderment these people felt seeing their homes from high up in the air for the first time ever.

It was a moment Hall that stuck with him so much that he wrote about in his dearMoon application. “That there was a really special experience that happens in that moment, as a filmmaker, getting to capture people seeing something like that for the first time,” and something he anticipates getting to witness firsthand as he and his cremates fly into space.

These were experiences he never predicted he’d ever have. “I was just grateful, man. It’s still how I feel about all this space stuff.”

Selection Sunday

Hall recently directed Out There: A National Parks Story, a nature documentary about America’s public lands and the human stories that are immersed in these places. He’ll be debuting the film around festivals throughout the country later this year.

Out There stands in stark contrast to the project Hall intends to undertake when he jets off into space. But he’s also no stranger to the cosmos, having done night sky photography and timelapses since he was a teen. “Night sky photography has always been my happy place,” he said. “I don't do it for money, I just do it out of pure love for doing it.”

In submitting his application (which was open to the public), Hall wrote about his desire to make films that conveyed beauty and wonder to audiences, and to demonstrate how stories with a “human side” exist even in the most remote and uncharted places imaginable. And there was no bigger or rarer challenge than to do that with a film about space, made in space.

Still, Hall admits that he submitted his application to dearMoon in March 2021 mainly out of a whim. “I just never even considered going up there just because it felt so out of the realm of possibility,” he said. “I didn’t in a million years think I’d actually get selected.”

So he was pretty stunned when his application moved through the next stages, which were a series of Zoom videos with members of the dearMoon team, including a former JAXA astronaut, Naoko Yamazaki. “That’s when I realized this was getting to be a big deal.” Group interviews with other applicants followed, then medical and psychological interviews at the University of California, Los Angeles. . A few more in-person interviews followed in Houston, and then Europe.

“I just felt very comfortable during the process of being me, being Brandon,” he said. “There wasn't anything that felt cheesy or superficial about it. I’m not going to do it if this feels like a reality show for a game show, or if I’m having to beg them to take me. That doesn't feel like a healthy dynamic to put essentially my life on the line.”

Finally, around the Thanksgiving holidays in 2021, Hall had a Zoom call with Maezawa himself, in which the billionaire let Hall know he was going to space. “The whole world stopped for a moment,” Hall recalled.

He accepted the offer, of course. He really believes that good things can and will come out of the mission. For his own ambitions, he’s hoping to pursue what he calls a “longform film project”—a feature-length documentary, or a series. He’s not yet certain what that will look like, but he’s hoping to really capture what he said is the “uniqueness of this group of people” and their different backgrounds and experiences suddenly thrown into a tight-knit space. He hopes to make something that captures a sense of wonder and inspiration.

“We want to learn as much as we can, and then kind of open that door for other missions and other filmmakers, artists, whoever it is to get to have an experience like that to ensure their voice,” he said.

New Space, New Suspicions

Though there is an immense amount of excitement for the mission from space obsessives and passersby alike, dearMoon isn’t without its share of criticism. Some of it is a symptom of the times. We’re seeing more and more people go into space like William Shatner, Michael Strahan, Richard Branson, and Jeff Bezos, to name a few. But it’s still the ultra-wealthy who hold the keys. Maezawa has already been to space once, after buying his way onto a 2021 Russian mission to the ISS. SpaceX’s other tourist flights have all been financed by multi-millionaires and billionaires. And the lucky less-wealthy ones have been plucked entirely by the key-holders.

“It’s sort of interesting how these people are more less, like, selected for us,” Britt Duffy Adkins, an urban planner and the CEO of space urban planning company Celestial Citizen, told me. While access to space is opened to people who wouldn’t otherwise get the chance, it’s still the billionaire class that gets to decide. Even if there is a philanthropic arm, it’s still at their discretion.

“Earth is being told, ‘This is representative of society, of humanity,’ but the public doesn’t actually get to participate in that process,” she said. “We don’t actually know what the decision-making process behind it is, or what the rationale is. I have a fundamental problem with that power dynamic.”

Adkins does have a point, even specific to dearMoon. While Maezawa has selected under-the-radar creatives like Hall to join him, he’s also bringing with him some big names like Aoki—and it’s hard to dispel the notion that such celebrity status wasn’t a factor such picks. It also seems a bit strange to some that there aren’t any artists on the mission whose work is more closely tied with space, like a science fiction author might be.

Many on dearMoon also hail from countries that already boast regular access to space. As a general observation of the current industry, “very few people are going to space from countries that don’t necessarily have that same wealth and privilege and power dynamic in the space industry,” Adkins.

She isn’t sure exactly what kind of system could be implemented to make these processes more democratic, but she thinks it has to start with a bigger transparency over how these decisions are made over who goes up and who doesn’t. Otherwise, trying to say that a mission is being taken for the good of humanity as a whole feels mealy-mouthed.

Inside the Fight to Save Mars From Inheriting Earth’s Mess

And that raises the question over what the real point of dearMoon is. While Maezawa and SpaceX are promoting it to be a conduit by which to inspire new kinds of art and creativity, it’s not totally clear how this is supposed to be achieved.

That isn’t to say dearMoon is not a momentous endeavor on its own for the future of space travel. They are going to orbit the moon after all. “In one respect, it would be really a compelling shift—suddenly we had a crew of civilians that went [to the moon] and did it even before NASA sent an Artemis crew to the moon. So I think that in some ways, that would be a very paradigm shifting event,” said Adkins.

“The Most Incredible Honor”

The significance of what the first civilian mission to the moon might mean for space this century is not at all lost on Hall. “It’s just the most incredible honor filled with so much gratitude, and I can't even comprehend it.” During our conversation, he said he often thinks back to his maternal grandfather’s family immigrating to America as Russian Jews, and how in two generations his grandson is now getting the chance to go into space. And that’s a privilege he doesn’t take lightly.

On a personal level, besides getting to experience microgravity, Hall is most looking forward to understanding and seeing what space does to him at a spiritual and emotional level.

“I’ve thought a lot about like, why are we on this planet? What are we doing? And I just can't wait to feel that out there and ponder those things thousands and thousands of miles away,” he said. “A moment I’m thinking of a lot is when the surface of the moon fills out the window of our spacecraft. I can’t even imagine what that’s going to feel like.”

He’s especially bullish about the opportunity to share that with a crew he has quickly gotten to know, and whom he’s excited to take this venture with. As Hall tells it, the crew is aware of the kinds of critiques being lobbed at the current space industry these days. And they are trying to brainstorm ways to do something that can address those concerns.

“I know something we’re excited to do is represent great stewardship to the planet,” he said. “We’re going to figure out some really cool ways we can try to represent that.”

For now, however, the mission’s schedule is still in limbo. Officially, dearMoon is slated to launch before the year’s end, but almost nobody believes that timeline will hold. And the crew is still awaiting instructions for training. Hall has spent the last few months acclimating to a newfound mini-celebrity status and navigating the surreality of the experience. “I’m still finding that balance between being a crew member who’s public facing, and being a filmmaker, which requires me to stay as low-key as I can,” he said.

Thursday’s explosion hasn’t deterred him one bit. And Adkins hopes that SpaceX proceeds cautiously—for the crew’s sake, as well as the stability of the space industry.

SpaceX’s Starship May Finally Be Ready to Fly to the Moon—if It Doesn’t Blow Up

“Anytime we send civilians to space, I get very, very nervous,” she said. “A disastrous outcome would really change the narrative about how we think about space opening up to the masses more broadly. So I just hope that whatever timeline SpaceX pursues, I hope that they're making sure they're really ready before they proceed.”

Risks and all, Hall seems resolute in his decision, and is embracing the experience in its entirety—emotions and all.

“I was crying when the rocket got off the pad,” he said. “We all really believe this is actually going to work.”

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Whether a painting or sculpture is made in orbit or forged on terra firma and launched to the stars, the minds creating the new genre of space-centric art are using this rare creative category to raise funds and awareness for important earthly causes.

With space quickly becoming both a tourism destination and an industrial commerce target, awareness of extraterrestrial art continues to grow among creators, buyers, and curators. Against the starry backdrop, Richelle Gribble co-founded Beyond Earth, an all-female artist collective to advocate for the planet’s biodiversity.

The group recently saw its first creation designed for space launched into the stratosphere—a sculpture built on Mars (or as close as Earthlings can come). Gribble served as an analog astronaut in a recent, all-female Mars mission simulation at HI-SEAS (the Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation complex). While sealed within the habitat near Mauna Loa, Hawaii, as the mission’s science communicator and podcast host, Gribble tested and prototyped Living Light, a 16-foot sculpture designed by Beyond Earth to become the largest art installation to reach space.

“We teamed up with the spaceflight company Space Perspective to send the artwork up over 100,000 feet above Earth,” Gribble says. “Living Light combines biology, artificial intelligence, and aerospace technology to explore the connections between our planet and the boundlessness of space.”

According to Gribble, the Beyond Earth collective was founded in June 2019 with her partners, Elena Soterakis, director of creative productions, and Yoko Shimizu, director of technology and design.

“When I first met Elena in Brooklyn, she was running science art exhibitions and a biotech incubator,” Gribble explains. “I told her I wanted to train to become an astronaut and go to space so I could make art there. She was excited about that introduction and was inspired by it.”

A few months later, Soterakis contacted Shimizu, an artist and educator also working in New York. The Tokyo-born illustrator was exploring how gravity changes botanical growth.

“Elana realized she knew two artists that were really interested in space,” Gribble adds. “She thought this could make for a special platform to explore, and we decided to do collaborations based on the intersection of art, biology, and space.”

Gribble describes the three women of Beyond Earth coming together because of a need for more projects in space representing a feminine perspective. Their work is aimed at exploring the biodiversity of the planet to aid life on Earth.

After its launch, Living Light spent six hours in flight before descending back to Earth and landing in the ocean for recovery. Gribble’s HI-SEAS testing helped make sure the sculpture was resilient for space flight and tough enough to leave no debris in the environment upon its return.

“We’re now doing repairs on the piece to make sure it’s available for public view,” Gribble says. “We also want to share the story of how the work was created to amplify the biodiversity of aquatic ecosystems. The inner organs of the design represent the summation of more than 1,000 species of ocean life.”

Gribble and her partners hope the Living Light project captivates viewers’ imaginations—inspiring more exploration of both deep space and deep oceans.

“We have some interest from prominent museums to display the sculpture,” Gribble says. “We’re planning the logistics of all that now. We plan to house the space artwork at a museum with other pieces inspired by the project displayed worldwide.”

While the women of Beyond Earth built a sculpture bound for zero gravity, Nicole Stott used a tiny painting kit in 2009 to create The Wave, a compact masterpiece made aboard the International Space Station and delivered to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum as the first watercolor rendered in orbit. Stott, 58, spent more than 103 days high above the Earth during her five missions as a NASA engineer. Her view of Isla Los Roques, Venezuela, from the ISS inspired her historic brushstrokes.

Now a working artist, philanthropist, and public speaker, Stott works to build on her notable space creation to promote such causes as pediatric cancer and art education for children.

“When I was considering retiring from NASA and taking myself out of that line waiting to fly to space again, I wanted to find a way to share the spaceflight experience,” Stott says. “I just kept coming back to that painting. Art seemed like the best way to connect with people who didn’t know much about the space station or how an international community came about to use space exploration to make life better on Earth.”

Stott now uses paintings of what she experienced on her missions to engage communities in the world of space exploration. That endeavor brought her in contact with the Space for Art Foundation and the Spacesuit Art Program. Founded by artist Ian Cion, the latter began with children participating in the Arts in Medicine program at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Texas and grew internationally through the cooperation of the ILC Dover space-suit company.

According to Stott, the Spacesuit Art Project brings together artists, astronauts, cosmonauts, space exploration professionals, medical staff, and children in hospitals, refugee centers, and schools to paint decorated spacesuits—including four that traveled to and from the ISS.

“The start of my involvement with the Spacesuit Art program became the start of my next mission,” Stott says. “It allows me to combine the space exploration that I love, the art I want to do, and this aspect of healing with the kids.”

The program’s most recent suit, Beyond, includes artwork from at least one child in every country on Earth. Once completed, Beyond will participate in the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow to represent “our place in the universe and the connection between personal and planetary health.”

The crew applied Kapton tape as a temporary seal while plans for more durable repairs were made.

The Russian cosmonauts later applied an epoxy-based sealant and medical gauze to ensure a more permanent fix from inside the Soyuz module.

The pressure drop was minor and did not pose an immediate danger to the crew, but the situation was closely monitored by both Russian and US mission control.

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Review: A herculean human effort and two cute robots equals triumph for ‘Good Night Oppy’

Great true stories about space exploration don’t come around too often anymore. Our pop cultural representations about NASA’s achievements (or failures) tend to be period pieces and retreads of the greatest hits. But the new documentary “Good Night Oppy,” directed by Ryan White, is an exciting and fresh story about a more recent mission to Mars, one that exceeded all expectations and then some, thanks to hard work, ingenuity, a lot of luck and dogged perseverance.

Produced by, among others, Amazon Studios, Amblin Entertainment and Industrial Light and Magic, “Good Night Oppy” is a documentary that aims to capture the sense of childlike wonder and expansive, imaginative scope akin to the films for which Amblin and ILM are known. The amazing story of the Mars Exploration Rover mission manages to feel emotionally like “E.T.” and look like “Star Wars.”

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The Mars rovers were the brainchild of geologist and astronomer Steve Squyres, who grew tired of exploring the farthest reaches of the Earth and dreamed of exploring Mars, imagining that a robotic rover could travel to the red planet in his stead. After years of proposals, NASA finally gave the OK to develop twin rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, which were launched in 2003 to search for evidence of water — evidence of life — on Mars.

The mission was intended to last 90 days (or Martian “sols”) but miraculously went on for 16 years, thanks to unexpected bouts of luck when the rovers reached the planet. White and co-writer Helen Kearns tell the story through well-curated and edited archival footage and interviews with a group of diverse and engaging NASA scientists and engineers who dedicated almost two decades of their lives to the journey of these rovers.

In every interview with the people who dreamed up, built and guided the rovers along their way, White and Kearns take care to foreground the human stories, about their childhoods and families, their sparks of inspiration. The jargon never gets too technical, and the scientists and engineers are more than happy to anthropomorphize the rovers, whom they speak about with great affection, often likening the rovers to their children or identifying closely with them. Spirit is “rugged and scrappy,” while Opportunity is “Little Miss Perfect.” The affection and care the humans feel for the robots is clearly part of the secret sauce that made this mission so successful.

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When Spirit and Opportunity landed, they each set off to collect and analyze samples, photograph the landscape of Mars and explore the planet like curious tourists. Carefully navigated by the humans (or “earthlings” as they refer to themselves) located at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, Spirit and Oppy endured dust storms and winter freeze, running into bits of unbelievable luck and frustrating hang-ups along the way.

Among the most effective tools in White’s storytelling arsenal are the “wake-up” songs the team at JPL play for the rovers, and for their teammates, working on a brutal schedule to keep the rovers moving. The soundtrack is littered with everything from bops (“Walkin’ on Sunshine”) to ballads (ABBA’s “S.O.S”) that lift the mood or pull at the heartstrings.

As a filmmaker, White subsumes his own point of view, and the film never takes any critical or contrary stance toward its subject matter. At times, it feels like an infomercial or recruitment video, helping to demonstrate the function of NASA in this modern era while recounting the unlikely astronomical success of this mission. Much of the filmmaking is focused on making this story accessible and interesting to a wide audience, especially kids, and a storyline about the generations of students who watched the launch and later went on to work on the mission is a subtle way to beckon future aerospace scientists and engineers into the fold.

Despite the somewhat bland nature of the storytelling — it’s not like this documentary is pushing the boundaries of the form — it’s an incredible true story told with care and skill. It would be shocking if one doesn’t shed a tear or two at the sheer triumph of it all, the result of herculean human effort, teamwork, and two cute little robots.

Katie Walsh is a Tribune News Service film critic.

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An investigation was launched into the cause of the hole, with early theories including either a manufacturing defect or deliberate damage on the ground or in orbit.

Russian officials initially suggested the hole was made by a drill, but further details about how and why this occurred were not released publicly.

By September 2018, the sealed area was holding air pressure, and the incident was considered resolved from a technical perspective.

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NASA celebrates winners of second MarsXR virtual reality astronaut training competition

NASA has revealed the winners of the second MarsXR Challenge, a crowd-sourced competition designed to create realistic training simulations and scenarios that could one day be used by astronauts preparing for human-lead missions to Mars and the moon. Three teams shared the $70,000 top prize this year, which focused on playable scenarios involving extravehicular activity on the surface of Mars.

This was the second year of the competition, which is a collaborative effort between NASA, HeroX, Buendea and Epic Games. Game developer Buendea is involved because of NASA’s extensive gamification work, and also because many of the winning scenarios this year almost seem like video games in that they involve exciting and unexpected scenarios taking place on Mars. Most of the winning scenarios also enable players to be scored like in a video game based on their crew’s effectiveness in completing each challenge. Epic Games contributed its Unreal Engine 5 graphical engine, which allowed for the creation of an incredibly realistic environment that mimics over 400 square kilometers of Mars almost perfectly. This includes full Martin days with bright orange hues of sunlight and cold nights filled with deep blues seeping across the landscape as the sun sets. The testbed also has realistic weather conditions happening across hundreds of square miles of virtual Martian terrain.

While the original challenge last year was more of a proof of concept, this year was more about creating realistic scenarios that future astronauts could actually one day use for training. For example, at a press conference last week with the winning teams, NASA officials suggested that the new scenarios might eventually be integrated with the Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog — or CHAPEA — taking place at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. The CHAPEA exercise has a crew living and working in a 3D printed environment that mimics a Mars habitat. NASA officials suggested that scenarios like the ones created in the recent MarsXR challenge could be used with VR headsets to allow CHAPEA volunteers to journey outside their habitat to perform various simulated missions on Mars.

The MarsXR challenge this year was divided up into two parts. The first challenged participants to create virtual reality scenarios by describing them using storyboards. The winning scenarios of part one were then submitted for use by teams in the second part to be made into actual, playable VR scenarios. All told, there were 3,700 participants this year divided up into 272 teams.

“We are thrilled by the growing success of NASA’s second challenge to support extravehicular activity research for the surface of Mars. The dedication and creativity of our innovator community have exceeded all expectations in this challenge,” said HeroX Vice President of Customer Success Kyla Jeffrey. “Our ongoing collaboration with NASA boasts a series of remarkable competitions that will continue to push the boundaries of what’s possible.”

The three winning teams this year included Team Overheat, which also won the challenge last year. They were joined by Team SpaceLux and Nataliia Savchenko’s Team. At the press conference last week, all three teams shared YouTube movies of their VR scenarios in action.

The winning scenario from Team Overheat this year centered around an understandable problem here on Earth: a broken down vehicle. However, if a rover breaks down on Mars, it can quickly become a life-threatening situation depending on how far away it is from a safe habitat. In the Team Overheat mission, crews must quickly load up repair tools and mount another vehicle for a quick rescue. Crews are rated on how efficiently they are able to get the broken down vehicle back up and running.

The winning entry from Nataliia Savchenko’s Team is much more peaceful. It involves having astronauts use some of the realistic tools they will be equipped with on a real Mars mission in order to look for interesting rock samples that have been previously spotted by drones or other surveillance tools. And because the Unreal Engine 5 is so realistic, it even involves having the rock collecting crews compare photographs of the area where the targeted samples reside on their tablets with the actual terrain to confirm their location. That is only possible because of the realistic nature of the VR landscape. Crews in the rock collection scenario are rated on their accuracy and the speed of their collection process.

The final winning entry from Team SpaceLux is more of a mini-scenario that is designed to be inserted into any larger mission to give astronauts a bit of a dangerous surprise. It involves a crew member whose spacesuit springs multiple leaks. With precious oxygen quickly draining out of their suit, it’s up to the rest of the crew to find and repair the leak before their partner passes out or dies from a lack of oxygen. At the press conference, members of Team SpaceLux said that their scenario presented a realistic situation that can happen at any time, and which future astronauts need to be prepared to face.

For example, imagine going out on a rock-collecting mission like the one presented by Nataliia Savchenko’s Team, and then experiencing a life threating emergency, something that is a constant danger on a planet like Mars. According to Team SpaceLux, being able to experience something like that in a VR scenario will make future astronauts more prepared for unexpected situations.

Both NASA and HeroX representatives said that the Mars challenges would likely continue in the future, although details about next year’s challenge were not yet available. NASA officials did say that they liked how this year’s Mars challenge was configured into two tightly integrated parts mutually supporting each other, and that future challenges would likely be similarly designed.

NASA has other non-Martian challenges ongoing right now as part of their NASA Tournament Lab. For example, one with a $345,000 top prize asks the public for suggestions about how to better manage vegetation growth clogging irrigation canals, while another with a $30,000 top prize is looking for ways to make commercial airplanes run more efficiently with less pollution.

John Breeden II is an award-winning journalist and reviewer with over 20 years of experience covering technology. He is the CEO of the Tech Writers Bureau, a group that creates technological thought leadership content for organizations of all sizes. Twitter: @LabGuys

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The Soyuz spacecraft later undocked and returned safely to Earth in December 2018, carrying astronauts without incident.

The air leak episode raised questions about spacecraft manufacturing and safety protocols, leading to greater scrutiny in subsequent Soyuz missions.

No crew members were injured during the incident, and the ISS maintained normal operations throughout and following the repair.

The crew of the film “Challenge” worked on the International Space Station (ISS) to conduct an experiment simulating a surgical operation in weightlessness, according to the head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, at a presentation of the “Challenge” scientific and educational project in Dubai.

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The crew of the film “Challenge ” worked on the International Space Station (ISS) experiment to conduct a surgical operation in weightlessness, said the head of“ Roscosmos ” Dmitry Rogozin at the presentation of the scientific and educational project “Challenge ” in Dubai.
“Today, we have the technology of performing a surgical operation in the absence of gravity in our hands, and everything is different there.
How to fix the doctor so that he can control his own actions, how to fix the patient in the conditions of the existing station, so that he is still, so that he can make the most precise movements with surgical instruments.
How to fix the tool.
What to do with the blood, which, unlike earthly conditions, does not pour on the floor (...), but which binds a surgical instrument like oil.
And how to behave here, ” Rogozin said (quoted by Interfax).
Actress Julia Peresild and director Klim Shipenko spent 12 days aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and returned to Earth on October 17.
On the ISS, the shooting of the feature film "Challenge" - the project of "Channel One", "Roscosmos" and the studio Yellow, Black and White.
In the story, the main character is a doctor who went into space to provide medical assistance to an astronaut.
This is the first ever feature film shot in space.
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Filming for “The Challenge” took place 400 km from Earth on board the ISS and was the first feature film shot in space, with Julia Peresild receiving the main female role and Klim Shipenko directing.

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Filmed in space, the film “Challenge ” will be released on April 20, reported in the group“ Polite People | Special Operation Z ”.
The main roles in the film were performed by Julia Peresild, Vladimir Mashkov, Milos Bikovich, Alexander Baluev and others.
According to the plot of the film, the thoracic surgeon Zhenya for a month was preparing for a flight to the ISS to save the life of an astronaut.
“The Challenge ” was the first film shot in space.
Filming took place on board the ISS 400 km from Earth.
In addition, in the film will appear pilot-cosmonaut, Hero of Russia Oleg Novitsky.
He admitted that the members of the film crew helped him get used to the role.
“On board the ISS, we worked harmoniously.
Thanks to the skill and experience of Klim and Julia, we got a good material.
Of course, we are not professional actors, but astronauts.
Therefore, it was problematic for us to professionally express our feelings in the frame.
But the experience of Klim and Julia helped us, ” said Novitsky.
Also in the shooting took part the test cosmonaut, Hero of Russia Pyotr Dubrov.
He said that the work on the film did not interfere with the scientific activities of the ISS.
“At first, we were wary of shooting on the ISS, because the station is primarily a scientific laboratory, it is not designed for filming feature films.
As a result, the work at the station was organized so that the shooting did not interfere with our main activities, ” the astronaut shared.
Note that Julia Peresild will play Elizabeth I in the film “Empresses ”.
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Julia Peresild and Director Klim Shipenko, representing creative professions, went on a short expedition to the ISS with plans to return to Earth with flight engineer Oleg Novitsky.

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ISS-66 crews answered questions from journalists and social media users
A pre-flight press conference of the main and backup crews of the ISS-66 expedition was held at the Cosmonaut Training Center.
Journalists, bloggers, social media users from all over the world sent many questions to them.
The event was held in an online format jointly with TASS, Roscosmos State Corporation, Channel One and the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.
Recall that the main crew of ISS-66: Hero of the Russian Federation, cosmonaut of Roscosmos Anton Shkaplerov, film director Klim Shipenko, actress Julia Peresild.
Their understudies are Hero of the Russian Federation, cosmonaut of Roscosmos Oleg Artemyev, cinematographer Alexei Dudin, actress Alena Mordovina.
Representatives of creative professions go on a short expedition into orbit and must return to Earth with the flight engineer ISS-65 Oleg Novitsky.
ISS-66 crew commanders were trained in the program, which provides for six months of work in space.
Oleg Artemyev has two space trips so far, Anton Shkaplerov is preparing for his fourth expedition into orbit.
Answering the question of journalists, how will the next flight differ from previous ones, the commander of the main crew of ISS-66 explained that for the first time it is necessary to control the spacecraft without the help of a flight engineer.
“I ’ m going to do most of the job on my own.
If an astronaut is sent into orbit, but a person of another profession, he receives the status of a participant in a space flight.
But if necessary, Klim and Julia will help me, they have been trained.
We will fly on the “fast scheme ”, and about three hours after the start, the docking of our ship with the ISS should occur.
And already at the station itself, of course, you will have to acquire a new experience, because no one has previously shot a feature film in space and has not starred in it, ” said Anton Shkaplerov.
The project with the working title “Challenge ” is about a girl-doctor who, due to dramatic circumstances, goes to the ISS to save the life of an astronaut.
Director Klim Shipenko noted that the genre will be a drama.
The shooting will involve all Russian cosmonauts who will be on the ISS: Anton Shkaplerov, Oleg Novitsky and Peter Dubrov.
They will play representatives of their profession.
The director is sure that only astronauts in orbit have not yet starred in feature films, while representatives of all “earthly ” specialties have such experience.
It is curious that each of the participants of the project “Challenge ” will have to try on different roles in space.
Astronauts will become actors for a while, the director will perform the functions of operator and illuminator, the actress will be a costume designer and makeup artist for everyone else.
This is not a complete list of additional responsibilities.
The commander of the backup crew of ISS-66 Oleg Artemyev stressed that the station has long become a large shooting platform, because cosmonauts shoot there videos about their life and work in weightlessness, participate in online conferences, conduct reports and record video messages.
But shooting a feature film requires a completely different approach, so everyone is very interested in what will happen in the end.
Alena Mordovina, who duplicates Julia Peresild, said that the experience of preparing for the flight on the basis of the CPC has greatly enriched her as an actress, and she will be able to apply it, for example, while working on other films.
Klima Shipenko ’ s double Alexey Dudin answered the question about technical devices for the implementation of the “Challenge ” project in space.
In particular, special devices for the camera are made.
In the CCP, the film crew conducted a large number of rehearsals.
This will be not just the first movie in orbit, but part of a joint scientific and educational project of Channel One, Roscosmos State Corporation and Yellow, Black, White studios.
The project will be a clear indication that space flights are gradually becoming available to a wider range of people.
Traditionally, at each pre-flight conference there is a question about a toy indicator of weightlessness.
This time there will be three of them: the snow leopard, which for Anton Shkaplerov was chosen by his youngest daughter Kira, as well as Galchonok and Cheburashka, which will be taken with him by his partners.
The commander of the main crew of ISS-66 joked that with so many indicators, they definitely will not miss the moment when they fall into weightlessness.
This should happen 9 minutes after the start.
The ISS-66 crews will continue preparations for the flight at Baikonur.
The launch of the Soyuz MS-19 transport manned spacecraft is scheduled for October 5, 2021 from the Baikonur cosmodrome.
The planned duration of the ISS-66 crew is 174 days.
The approximate duration of the participants of a space flight to the ISS is not less than 12 days.
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Director Klim Shipenko stated that the genre of the film would be a drama, where Peresild’s character, a doctor, travels into space to provide medical assistance to an astronaut, with part of the story devoted to the mission of rescuing a crew member.

The selection process for the team was very rigorous, and training was conducted under the guidance of experienced mentors, including simulations of various emergency situations.

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At that time, training simulations of the emergency situation were carried out.
Among NASA employees, there are often people known as simulator supervisors, or "simulants", who are treated with caution.
These people are responsible for creating and conducting complex and responsible flight simulations.
During these simulations, mission control engineers and astronauts get into simulation scenarios related to breakdowns and emergency situations, testing their resilience and readiness for real in-flight crisis situations.
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According to NPR, on June 12, space enthusiasts listening through the NASA website to the air-to-ground connection between Houston and the International Space Station (ISS) were stunned by the data.
They heard a disturbing report that one of the astronauts was experiencing DCS, or decompression sickness.
The ISS is a serious danger on the ISS, where the internal atmosphere is maintained at a pressure of 1.033513 kilograms per square centimeter at sea level to protect astronauts from external vacuum.
The station has many seams and fittings, any of which can leak and pose a threat to the safety of the crew.
Since 2019, NASA and Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, have been tracking a slow leak in the Russian Zvezda module.
Although this leak is not life-threatening, attempts to eliminate it have so far failed.
The DCS emergency announcement made NASA listeners remember the Star leak, but ISS officials quickly said it was all right, announcing to X that the call was just the work of simsup, dispatchers and crew of astronauts undergoing training at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, who conducted a simulation and accidentally crossed their transmissions with an air-to-ground line.
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The “film crew” underwent physical and technical training, learned to work in zero gravity, and had to get used to the same routines as cosmonauts, including eating space food, dealing with constant equipment noise, and never turning off the station lights.

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“Let ’ s go! ”: what we know about the“ Challenge ” to space and why it matters
© Sputnik / Pool / Sergei Savostyanov / Go to photobank Members of the main crew of the 66th expedition to the International Space Station before the launch of the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft
The crew went to the ISS for the film “Challenge ”, which will be the first film in the history of cinema with the filming of professional actors in space.
Russian filmmakers ahead of Hollywood colleagues and the first to work in space, writes Anna Nekhaeva for RIA Novosti.
Tom Cruise and director Doug Lyman, who are going to shoot "Mission Impossible" in space, will be at least second.
The artists have gone through centrifuges, pressure chambers, overload, difficult training and are ready to work in weightlessness.
On the eve of the launch of the rocket with a "movie crew" - a guide on the most important aspects of the project.
Actress in space is now a reality.
The first will be the performer of the main role in the “Challenge ” Julia Peresild.
"The artist should be gentle, sensitive, open, - says Julia. - And the cosmonauts are the opposite: you need to be collected, concentrated.
Let ’ s see how we can combine.
But now I ’ m more of a person (not an actress or an astronaut) who is going to have an incredible miracle. ”
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Preparation for the filming of the film "Challenge", Julia Peresild
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Julia Peresild during the preparation for the shooting
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Preparation for the filming of the film "Challenge", Julia Peresild
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Julia Peresild during the preparation for the shooting
Baikonur is the central location of the project on the launch day.
From here, for the first time in history, the "film crew" starts on the "Soyuz MS-19".
© Photo: press-service of the First channel / Sasha GusovJulia Peresild
Julia Peresild
"Challenge" is a scientific and educational project.
But the details of the story are kept secret.
It is known that this is a dramatic film about the girl-doctor (Peresild), who should prepare for the flight in a month and go to the ISS.
There she will have to rescue one of the crew members.
This secrecy confuses many.
“The script is closed even from the specialists of the Mission Control Center.
If the planners and operators of the Center, the medical support team do not understand what to expect, and can react only in fact, then this is not at all correct.
This affects the effectiveness of the crew, and safety, ” — said in an interview with RIA Novosti instructor-cosmonaut test of the 1st class, three times in space, doctor, Deputy Director of the Institute of biomedical problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences Oleg Kotov.
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The crew learns to work in zero gravity
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Preparing for the filming of the film "Challenge" was a difficult, but interesting test
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The road is an important part of the preparation of project participants.
Julia Peresild said that with the stunt doubles of the team, the "movie crew" travels on different buses for safety.
"We often see herds of camels.
And they are here of different breeds and colors, go out on the road and reluctantly leave, allowing our caravan to pass.
Sometimes we just fall asleep on the bus from fatigue and busy schedule, but if there is a free minute, we work on the film and on the road, too, rehearse, ” the actress shared her impressions.
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During preparation for filming
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Actors will be forced to work in unusual conditions
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Careful preparation will help to avoid difficulties during the flight
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The Star City has traditionally become a place for the selection of applicants for space flight.
Those wishing to participate in the project spent more than one hour in the Cosmonaut Training Center.
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The preparation was difficult, but exciting.
The tests were not easy.
In addition to examinations of the otorhinolaryngologist, ophthalmologist, applicants (in addition to Peresild, these were actresses Sophia Arzhakovskaya, Alena Mordovina and pilot Galina Kairova) visited the centrifuge, pressure chamber, experienced continuous acceleration (the so-called vestibular test NKUK).
And they had to work out different group elements on the water, participate in "dry training" - landing in a pond, not to mention weightlessness.
Klim Shipenko will be the first director to fly into space and shoot a film there.
Although this topic is not new for him: in 2017, he released a picture “Salyut-7 ” about the orbital station.
And the two-time winner of the Golden Eagle award shot the highest-grossing film in Russia and the CIS “Holop ” (collected more than three billion rubles).
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The menu of the crew will be varied, three times a day and with a snack.
At the same time, no differences or exceptions for the "movie crew" are not assumed: everything is standard.
"On the first day they are waiting for breakfast: pork chopped with egg, cottage cheese, cookies" Russian ", vitamins.
At lunch: amateur caviar, borsch with meat, azu, bread "Borodinsky", dessert of apples.
Dinner: goulash with mashed potatoes, green bean salad, ginger cookies.
And drinks for the whole day: coffee, tea, cocoa, ” — said RIA Novosti head of the Department of nutrition Institute of biomedical problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Agureev.
© Photo: press-services of the First channel / Sasha GusovMembers of the "film crew" will eat the same as all cosmonauts
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The crew members will eat the same food as all astronauts.
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And before the flight "newcomers" can offer a glass of champagne.
Although sparkling for the ceremony of parting is usually poured "for the view."
© Photo: press-services of the First channel / Sasha GusovMembers of the crew
Members of the film crew
Inconveniences will become common things for the crew, because in weightlessness sleep, self-care and other "earthly" things turn into a test.
Peresild and Shipenko admitted that experienced cosmonauts shared life hacks with them, how best to wash or relax.
Sleeping without touching the walls is uncomfortable.
You're just floating around in a sleeping bag.
Even if you are exhausted during the day, very tired, it is still difficult to fall asleep.
You are trying to find a comfortable position, rest your legs and head to create the appearance of at least some pressure, ” said cosmonaut Oleg Kotov in an interview with RIA Novosti.
In addition, the ISS does not turn off the light, and you can also hear the noise of fans and operating equipment.
The selection of the team was tough.
So Peresild, Shipenko and the company guess what to expect.
An open competition was announced for the main female role, then 20 finalists passed a medical expert commission (for compliance with medical and psychological requirements, physical training, professional suitability).
The flight commission was successfully sustained by Peresild and her understudy Alain Mordovin.
And together with director Shipenko and cameraman Alexei Dudin passed an accelerated training course, which lasted only a few months.
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Specialists checked the physical condition of the film crew
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Tests were carried out by professionals
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Tests were carried out by professionals
The diva of the Russian stage recorded an appeal for Peresild, in which she supported the actress.
"Dear Yulechka, you have been preparing for this event for so long.
And if you suffer for a long time, you will definitely succeed.
You just have to open your wings and fly over your old self.
And please don't forget to send an autumn kiss to our wonderful planet.
We're waiting for you.
Come back! ” says Alla Pugacheva in the video.
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Rehabilitation of the "movie crew" after a two-week flight will be held in Star City.
According to experienced cosmonauts, after short-term flights, the body usually recovers in about seven days.
Only then will everyone be allowed to go home.
© Photo: Yellow, Black and WhiteShooting of the film "Challenge" will take place on board the ISS
Filming of the film "Challenge" will take place on board the ISS
“The script Klim periodically changes, complicating my role.
We have to teach - and this is not a poem that we taught at school, this is prose.
It's hard for us non-professional actors.
But we try, ” explained the captain of the ship Anton Shkaplerov, who plays the astronaut delivering the heroine Peresild to the ISS.
“The script was adapted in the process, after I recognized the astronauts (who will appear in the picture. – Approx. ed.), – says Shipenko. – The rest of the actors will be selected after the completion of the space block. ”
In the "Challenge" could play Sergei Burunov, Vladimir Mashkov, Tatiana Dogileva.
Also in the drimkast Shipenko called Polina Agureeva, Oleg Novitsky and Peter Dubrovin.
But it's still possible.
Tourists in space appeared in the early 2000s.
The first was an American entrepreneur of Italian origin Dennis Tito.
After it flew mostly businessmen from different countries.
In 2015, the trip of singer Sarah Brightman was planned, but in the end she refused.
Despite the impressive cost of preparing for the flight for the tourist (several tens of millions of dollars), there are many who want to.
And now in space for the first time will visit the film actress and director.
© Photo: Yellow, Black and WhiteSpace travel requires special skills
Space travel requires special skills
The pleasure of weightlessness "movie crew" has already received.
According to Julia Peresild, they stocked up a large number of paper bags, but it cost.
“We regretted that only once flew into weightlessness, ” says the actress.
© Photo: Yellow, Black and WhiteMembers of the crew got unforgettable emotions from training in weightlessness
Members of the crew got unforgettable emotions from training in weightlessness
French, English, Spanish and Russian are the main languages of the space launch broadcast.
It will be available from anywhere in the world.
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The film crew speaks several languages
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The figures for the project are impressive.
The crew will spend 12 days in space — the return is scheduled for October 17.
Approximately 35-40 minutes of shooting material, as Shipenko hopes, will be included in the final editing.
According to him, he wants “the maximum amount of space was filmed in space. ”
© Photo: press-service of the First channel / Sasha GusovThe return of the team is scheduled for October 17
The return of the team is scheduled for October 17.
The launch from Baikonur can be viewed in real time.
The launch of the Soyuz MS-19 manned transport spacecraft with a film crew will be conducted online on the website and in social networks of the First Channel, as well as on the Start online platform and in the Moskino Cosmos cinema.
© Photo: press-services of the First channel / Sasha GusovThe launch from Baikonur viewers will be able to see in real time
The launch from Baikonur viewers will be able to see in real time
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They practiced reaching tools with pointers and hand-piloted the ship, with Julia Peresild commenting on learning scripts, adjusting to roles, and experiencing acting in the unique ISS environment.

All crew members had to familiarize themselves with the shooting schedule in advance, knowing which scenes would be filmed, who would participate, and the designated ISS locations for each shot.

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Content: Anton Shkaplerov: "Ready at least for the moon, even for Mars!"
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# Roscosmos # Russian space # Interview # Manned cosmonautics # ISS # ISS-6627.02.2022 09: 00
Anton Shkaplerov: "Ready at least for the moon, even for Mars!"
Celebrating a birthday in orbit to Anton Shkaplerov, the commander of the crew currently working on the International Space Station, is no stranger.
He received congratulations during each of his flights, and taking into account the current number of them already four.
Despite the heavy workload - scientific experiments, station maintenance, mandatory physical education (even on weekends), - Anton Nikolaevich found time to talk with Svetlana Nosenkova and talk about participation in the scientific and educational project "Challenge", spacewalks, communication with Japanese space tourists, about how the holidays are held in weightlessness.
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In open space
— On January 19, you and Peter Dubrovov made the first spacewalk this year.
Did everything go as planned?
- Unfortunately, no.
Although all the actions were worked out in the hydrolaboratory of the Cosmonaut Training Center (CPC) and discussed the details already here, in orbit, but in the course of the work there were nuances regarding the design of the node module.
Neither we nor the specialists who prepared us for extra-ship activities (EVA) knew about them.
Therefore, some, at first glance, light work was delayed, for which not much time was laid.
But we understood that the main thing was to integrate the berth module into the Russian segment of the station and prepare it for docking.
We put antennas on it, targets on it, redocked the cables.
Specialists on Earth then checked and said that all the circuits are powered correctly, everything works.
So the module is ready to receive the Soyuz MS-21 ship with the crew of Oleg Artemyev, the launch of which is scheduled for March 18.
And what we did not have time to do were additional tasks that can be done in the following outputs.
If you compare the spacewalk that took place on January 19 with your previous ones, which one was the most difficult?
— I didn ’ t have many spacewalks — only three, so I remember everything well (smiles).
The most difficult was the first exit, which took place ten years ago – in February 2012, after all, the work on the outer board was new and unusual for me.
Of course, in the CPC there is a hydrolaboratory, and the simulator “Exit-2 ”, but this can not be compared with a real open space.
Therefore, for the first time it was harder: to get used to, to learn to move in weightlessness, to work in a spacesuit "Orlan".
The next ones were a little easier.
The Challenge is Accepted
- You talk so calmly about dangerous work in outer space, where, except for you and your partner, there is no one, as if it is a normal thing.
In the same calm voice you were reporting during the manual docking of your ship "Soyuz MS-19" with the station.
This is also a rather rare case.
- Yes, in five years it was the first manual docking, which indicates the high level of our space technology.
But sometimes there are failures.
That ’ s what we ’ ve been training for years.
I've been preparing for this for almost 15 years.
It was not for nothing (smiling).
The situation was complicated by the fact that you were flying with two non-professional participants in space flight.
Did actress Julia Peresild and director Klim Shipenko help you?
— When the emergency situation occurred, I had to visually control the position of the docking node and targets.
At the same time, it was necessary to manually control the ship and monitor the on-board documentation, that is, at certain moments to issue the necessary commands, not only on my display, which was in front of me, but also on the display on the left, with which the flight engineer usually works.
I had to use a pointer to reach out.
Klim was filming in the lander when the sound alarm went off and a red flashing light on the central console caught fire.
And he stopped shooting, so as not to distract from work.
And I asked Julia to open the flight documentation (she had it on her tablet) on the page on manual control and docking of the ship with the station and to see if I missed this or that command.
She read and checked with what I was doing.
And she also helped by holding a pointer to which I periodically issued commands on the flight engineer ’ s display so that it did not fly away somewhere in weightlessness.
I was piloting the ship by hand.
Everything went the way it was taught in the CCP – we have excellent simulators and instructors.
And thank you to the head of the flights Vladimir Alekseevich Solovyov for the fact that he previously allowed to switch to manual control in case there is a break in communication with the Earth during the failure of the second set of the system "Course".
In general, quite gently docked and continued our mission.
— In the first issue of your video blog, you noted that 12 days of filming on the project “Challenge ” were hard.
Astronauts are very familiar people.
Was it hard to be an actor?
“I had to unload my ship because I brought a lot of science equipment and things for filming.
Plus, of course, the shooting itself.
Even after dinner, we did a few hours of filming.
We got acquainted with the script itself in Star City.
Some scenes even tried to rehearse on the simulators of the ship and the station in the Cosmonaut Training Center.
So it was already clearer, at least to Klim, how to expose the cameras, the light.
It helped a lot.
And at Baikonur, we read roles.
It really wasn't easy.
I had to learn the text, and get used to the role.
Although I play myself from the film, but the situation there is unusual and I had to play as the director sees it.
Therefore, it was not easy to master acting skills and me, and Oleg, and Peter.
Although, on the other hand, it is quite interesting to feel like a real actor on the set of a feature film.
Are you looking forward to what happened in the end?
- Of course.
But at the station shot a small part of the future film.
After Peter and I return to Earth and undergo rehabilitation, we will continue shooting on Earth.
Judging by the script, the film should be interesting for the audience and unusual, because it is shot in real space.
— At the end of December, the CPC held a working meeting on the implementation of the scientific and educational project “Challenge ”, where it was said, in particular, that some of the premises of the Center will be renovated specifically for filming the“ earth part ” of the film.
Did you have to change anything in the interior of the station?
— The shooting schedule was drawn up on Earth by day and by hour.
We knew that today we were going to shoot – what scene, who is involved in it, where it will take place.
Naturally, they prepared the location of the shooting.
Removed all the excess from the modules, added the props that they brought with them, then removed everything back.
This process took place every day.
Shooting was conducted not only in the service module "Star", but also in the modules "Search", "Science", a little in the ship.
When the guys left, Peter and I for a long time carried everything to their places according to our database (each thing at the station has its number and place according to the inventory system. – Ed.).
With a Japanese accent
— In December, the ISS was visited by Japanese tourists together with the commander of the Soyuz MS-20 spacecraft, Alexander Misurkin.
And in your third flight (2017 – 2018), the crew was JAXA astronaut Norishige Kanai.
Did your experience with the Japanese help you?
Have you participated in the flight program of Yusaku Maezawa and Yozo Hirano?
The experience with Norishige helped, of course.
Thanks to him, I learned more about the culture and traditions of the Japanese.
And when the tourists arrived, they already had an idea of how they would behave.
Norishige taught me a few simple words in Japanese – “hello ”,“ goodbye ”, etc.
But mostly communicated in English.
In coordination with Roscosmos, I participated in their work, helped, but more as a cinematographer - I shot something with their participation, and somewhere I got into the frame (smiles).
Are there any positive emotions from this crew?
- New people, change of scenery - it is always a joy at the station.
Yusaku Maezawa had a very large program: many unusual experiments, and with the simplest earthly things, even with toys.
It was interesting to see how certain objects behave in weightlessness.
- Alexander Misurkin and Yusaku Maezawa also staged a badminton tournament in orbit.
— Sasha Misurkin and Mark Vande Hay have already played badminton in the last flight in 2018.
It was the first time we had such a tournament.
However, in the end, the monitor of one of the computers was broken.
This time we have taken a closer look at the matter.
Prepared the Japanese module JEM, closed all devices, computers that could suffer from a blow to the shuttlecock.
So it was safe.
It was a good psychological breakdown.
Playing terrestrial sports games on the ISS is always interesting, since in weightlessness the same volanchik behaves quite differently.
I played football at the station.
- On the frames on the Internet and the crew of the project "Challenge", and Japanese tourists looked great immediately after arriving at the station.
In your opinion, is it possible to say that the CPC has developed an optimal training program for non-professional participants in space flight?
I think we should start with selection.
First, the verdict of the medical commission was made on readiness for training, and then for flight.
And then they were trained.
Yes, it is a really good experience.
Well done doctors and all the specialists of the Center.
I did not doubt the crew of the project “Challenge ”, as I was preparing with them for the start.
And I was sure that just as carefully selected in the CPC tourists who do not have much time to prepare for the flight, and to do, as always, a lot.
Space holidays
This is the fourth time you have spent the New Year in orbit.
In this flight, you and Peter Dubrovov even prepared your favorite salad “herring under a fur coat ”.
How does it taste?
Does it look like Earth?
Have you treated your American colleagues to a space dish?
- We tried to make it earthly, but, unfortunately, the ingredients were not quite the same as at home.
Even the most important component of this salad - herring - we had canned and not so salty.
Everything else was picked up from a few different products.
In principle, the taste of “herring under a fur coat ” was.
We made a rather large salad - this cake turned out.
Realizing that we do not have a refrigerator in the Russian segment and it will not last long, we did not wait for the New Year, but invited our colleagues in the same evening.
And the whole crew ate the salad pretty quickly.
Everyone really liked it.
What New Year ’ s gift did you enjoy the most?
Most of all, of course, I was pleased with the video congratulations that my family, relatives and friends sent me.
A very large video was sent from my school, where I studied, from the ensemble, where I once danced in school.
A lot of congratulations from different people.
Of course, it is nice that people do not forget you when you leave the Earth, but say good words of wishes, give good farewell for the future.
On February 20, you will celebrate your fourth birthday in orbit.
Are there any traditions associated with this celebration?
— In the MCC, of course, an extraordinary connection with the Earth, with relatives and friends is planned.
Usually congratulations from the team of cosmonauts, the leadership of Roscosmos, especially when the anniversary.
Naturally, we will all come together in the Russian segment.
I'll get the packages that say "Open February 20th."
There are gifts that my family and the support group from the MCC have prepared.
I saved some products from the bonus containers that we will open on this day.
Do you plan to treat the crew to another meal?
Like the Olivier you did on the last flight?
- I haven't thought about it yet.
To decorate the table, maybe I will (smile).
Please share your nearest plans.
Perhaps you want to fly on a foreign spacecraft or participate in a lunar mission?
- The first is to successfully complete work on board the station, return home in time, recover from the flight, relax with your family - just the summer will be.
Then finish the film, which began in space, and return to work.
If by this time it will be possible to fly on Dragon, Starliner — yes, on any new ship, of course, I agree.
Ready to go to the moon, even to Mars!
But not at one end, of course (laughs).
It would be interesting to test new space technology.
- Fifty years: for something it's early, and for something, maybe it's too late.
What do you think?
Definitely early to summarize.
Half is done.
I am full of strength, health, energy.
And although I have been receiving a military pension for eight years, I do not consider myself a pensioner (laughs).
So I want to keep working.
And it is probably too late to change the character and life principles.
What are your life principles?
Do not be afraid to set global, big tasks, never deceive people, bring any business to the end, no matter what.
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During this period, Japanese tourists also visited the ISS with Soyuz MS-20 commander Alexander Misurkin, their visit carefully prepared and trained just like professional cosmonauts.

Anton Shkaplerov described being ready for the moon or even Mars, and expressed excitement for future space projects.

Oleg Novitsky noted that the experience of Klim and Julia helped the crew overcome challenges during space filming, as only a small part of the full movie was shot on the station itself.

After filming, the Russian film crew was scheduled to return to Earth on October 17.

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Content: The return of the Russian crew from space is scheduled for October 17 – News
Filming with the working title “Challenge ” (or“ Challenge ”) is scheduled for October 2021.
This is a joint project of the State Space Agency of Russia, Roscosmos, Channel One and the film studio Yellow, Black and White.
The launch of the manned spacecraft Soyuz MS-19 is scheduled for October 5 from the Baikonur cosmodrome.
The main crew is cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, actress Julia Peresild and film director Klim Shipenko, the backup crew is cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev.
Alena Mordovina and photographer Alexey Dudin.
The film is based on the story of a female doctor who had nothing to do with space and never thought about space activities, but at some point she was asked to go to the International Space Station to save the life of an astronaut.
This means that she has to do what she does on land, but in an environment that is not yet suitable for this purpose, ” said the director of the film.
The first part of the film shows the exercises performed by the heroine in the performance of Julia Peresild. before the flight, and the second part is devoted to her mission to save the astronaut.
Working on the concept of the project, I decided that it should be a film that everyone – especially most of us who have never been to space – could understand and relate to, ” added Shpenko.
Peresild, in turn, indicated that Shipenko should be a film director, photographer and lighting technician, and she should be an actress, makeup artist and treasury manager.
Shkaplerov noted that Shipenko and Peresild will film the motion for ten of the 12 days they are expected to spend aboard the International Space Station.
According to him, the film crew is good for filming.
“Why not?
The space station is like a large house of more than 15 units.
There will always be at least seven people, and when we get there, there will be three more. ”
Artemyev noted that the photo on the International Space Station is not new.
The station has long been a place of filming.
We do a lot of things about our life in orbit, about life in space, but so far, documentaries have been mostly documentaries, and this will be the first experience of making a feature film, ” he said.
The actress said she changed her daily routine.
It was the most difficult for her during the preparation for the shooting in space. ”
We filmmakers are used to being free: here they are a little late, and there they are on time.
I had psychological difficulties adjusting to a different routine, completely military and difficult, with no room for a smile.
It was hard for me, I felt a constant need to joke, ” she admitted.
As for the director, the exercises in the spaceship were the hardest for him. “People of my height are a little cramped when you have to sit for four hours – sometimes up to seven or eight hours – every day, ” he said.
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After that, it is believed that there will be a set of commercial stations orbiting the Earth, including one of the Axiom Space, which will include the new SEE-1 module.

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The International Space Station will soon have a movie studio and a sports arena.
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The International Space Station could have a new dedicated film studio and sports arena by the middle of the decade, as London-based Space Entertainment Enterprise (SEE) has unveiled plans for the station ’ s film, television, sports and entertainment broadcasting unit, which will be launched in 2024.
The unit is being built by Axiom Space, which is working on its own tourism and research unit for the station, and is also scheduled to be launched and attached to the station in 2024, and SEE already has a space entertainment organization, which claims to be producing a film, in partnership with Tom Cruise, that will be partially filmed at the station.
The new entertainment center will be connected to the Axiom unit, which will eventually separate from the International Space Station to form its dedicated space station.
No costs or budgets have been disclosed for the inflated spherical unit, but it is expected to be 20 feet in diameter and open to third parties for filmmaking and television.
NASA has committed to funding the station until 2030, and Russia has signaled a renewed commitment by launching a new laboratory unit.
After that, it is believed that there will be a set of commercial stations orbiting the Earth, including one of the Axiom Space, which will include the new SEE-1 module.
If launched, it would be the world ’ s first content and entertainment studios and a multi-purpose arena to run in space.
SEE says the module will allow artists, producers and creators to develop, produce, record and broadcast live content that maximizes the microgravity environment in the space station ’ s low orbit, including movies, television, music and events.
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Russian film crew returns to Earth after filming on the International Space Station.

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Content: Russian film crew returns to Earth after filming on the International Space Station
07: 22 AM Sunday 17 October 2021
Moscow - (DPA):
A Russian film crew is set to return to Earth later on Sunday after spending 12 days on the International Space Station in the world's first effort to produce a feature film in outer space.
The space capsule will land in the plains of Kazakhstan at 6: 35 am (0435 GMT).
Russian actress Yulia Beresild and director Klim Shepenko will return to Earth, along with astronaut Oleg Novitsky, who has been on the International Space Station since April.
Their journey is expected to take more than three hours.
The film, tentatively titled "The Challenge," tells the story of a female doctor, played by Beresild, who is forced to travel to the International Space Station to save the life of an astronaut who has fallen ill.
Russia says it is the first feature film to be shot in space and not in studios on Earth.
The United States is also planning to shoot a film there, but no date has been set.
The Russian space agency Roscosmos said the aim of the film was to make the industry more attractive to young people.
However, critics say the project was expensive and the money would have been better spent on research.
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Their journey is expected to take more than three hours.

Russia says it is the first feature film to be shot in space and not in studios on Earth.

The United States is also planning to shoot a film there, but no date has been set.

However, critics say the project was expensive and the money would have been better spent on research.

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Yulia Beresild became the first actress in history to depict a film in outer space, surpassing Hollywood stars led by Tom Cruise.
On Oct. 5, Yulia, 37, and 38-year-old filmmaker Klim Shepenko set off for the International Space Station to begin a 12-day adventure to shoot the Russian-language film Challenge.
To reach the space launch stage, Yulia and Klim underwent months of training, including centrifuge and zero gravity tests.
The heroine went into space on a Soyuz rocket, the first time the rocket has been launched to the International Space Station with only Russian citizens on board.
This work adds to a series of challenges between the space poles of Russia and the United States of America.
More than 60 years after the Soviet Union defeated the United States by launching the first satellite in human history, Russian cinematographers are currently filming the first feature-length extraterrestrial film.
This comes as the US space agency (NASA) announced last year a planned cooperation with SpaceX to shoot a movie starring Tom Cruise on board its International Space Station, with a budget estimated at about 200 million US dollars, but the Russians have been ahead.
Social media activists of different nationalities shared the features of the Russian-American conflict by posting tweets bearing pictures of Yulia and Cruz together.
Tweeters also praised Yulia ’ s efforts to become the first female filmmaker on the mission of filming extraterrestrial fiction, in a mission that has many difficulties and challenges.
Currently one of the most sought-after actresses in Russian cinema, Yulia graduated in 2006 in the acting department of the Russian University of Dramatic Arts.
Yulia was born in Pskov, a small Russian city located in the northwest on the border with Estonia and Latvia, and due to the deteriorating security situation in this city left her for the capital Moscow and began the dream of acting to attend the school of theater.
According to press reports, Yulia ’ s family did not believe in her talent, nor did they expect their daughter, who had never visited the theater, to eventually attend drama school and go to fame and then to space.
A unique experience
Yulia celebrated her unique experience by posting all the preparations for filming the film on her social media accounts.
Her Instagram account was congested, from the training videos to her launch to Kazakhstan, the first stop on a long road to extraterrestrial life.
Kazakhstan hosts the Baikonur cosmodrome, the largest space launch facility in the world.
On the experience, Yulia said in press statements and social media posts that “things will not be on the same level as on the ground. ”
When she set foot on the International Space Station, she said: “I still imagine I ’ m dreaming.
It ’ s almost impossible to believe that all of this is true. ”
The Russian film The Challenge tells the story of a female doctor, Yulia Beresild, who is called to the space station to rescue a crew member.
It is reported that two astronauts, Oleg Novitsky and Piotr Dobrov, will participate in a part of the film.
The film is a joint production of the first Russian channel and the Russian space agency Roscosmos.
Exceptional Positions
According to the live broadcast on the site of the Russian Space Agency, the spacecraft carrying the task team encountered problems while automatically docking with the International Space Station, which made the commander of the spacecraft astronaut Anton Shkaplerov, who participated in three space missions, decide to docking manually.
The Soyuz docked at the International Space Station just over three hours later.
Before the launch, the lenses focused on Beresild and her 12-year-old daughter Anna, who watched her mother from a safe distance as the spacecraft took off into space.
She also took pictures of Yulia adjusting her shape in a mirror just before she went into space, one of which has been widely shared on social media.
As part of the extraordinary circumstances associated with the filming of the work, the director ’ s wife, actress Sofia Karbonina, said that Shibenko had to lose 15 kg of weight before starting his mission.
Yulia and Klim are expected to face restrictions during filming in space, due to the limited number of people on the set.
The current situation suggests that there will be no staff of assistants, so she will put on her own makeup and make her own clothes.
Shibenko will perform all technical tasks such as photography, lighting and sound adjustment, as well as his duties as a director.
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According to press reports, Yulia’s family did not believe in her talent, nor did they expect their daughter, who had never visited the theater, to eventually attend drama school and go to fame and then to space.

On the experience, Yulia said in press statements and social media posts that “things will not be on the same level as on the ground.

It’s almost impossible to believe that all of this is true.”
The Russian film The Challenge tells the story of a female doctor, Yulia Beresild, who is called to the space station to rescue a crew member.

It is reported that two astronauts, Oleg Novitsky and Piotr Dobrov, will participate in a part of the film.

Yulia and Klim are expected to face restrictions during filming in space, due to the limited number of people on the set.

The current situation suggests that there will be no staff of assistants, so she will put on her own makeup and make her own clothes.

Shibenko will perform all technical tasks such as photography, lighting and sound adjustment, as well as his duties as a director.

Bin Nashuq said that in preparation for this qualitative task, the UAE team has been qualified, since August last year, by conducting experiments for 70 days, before the start of the mission, which began on November 4, 2021, which helped them to perform their tasks to the fullest and reach the current stage of success, and that they have hired a team of psychological experts to study the performance of pioneers to ensure good results.

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Providing the results of Amiri ’ s experiments to the global scientific community within 4 months
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Engineer Mohammed bin Nashouk, Director of the Emirates Simulation Project, told Al Bayan that there are arrangements and procedures that will be followed after the successful completion of the mission of Saleh Al Ameri, the astronaut of space simulation yesterday, and his exit from the ground station « Sirius 21 », in the experimental complex of the Institute of Medical and Life Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences. after an eight-month period of isolation.
Accurate follow-up
He added that there will be a careful follow-up to monitor the medical and health status of Amri once he leaves the isolation capsule, and will participate in this medical team including Emirati doctor Hanan Al Suwaidi, who will follow up his medical reports to check on him, noting that the results of the experiments and research carried out by Amri in « Sirius 21 » will be provided to the global scientific community during the next 4 months. Through the open data centers of the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center, as well as publishing them in the international scientific conferences in which they will participate, so that they can benefit from it soon.
Great rehabilitation.
Bin Nashuq said that in preparation for this qualitative task, the UAE team has been qualified, since August last year, by conducting experiments for 70 days, before the start of the mission, which began on November 4, 2021, which helped them to perform their tasks to the fullest and reach the current stage of success, and that they have hired a team of psychological experts to study the performance of pioneers to ensure good results.
Abdullah Al Hammadi, who is part of the reserve team working in the ground operations center, played an important role in the success of the mission of his colleague Saleh Al Ameri and all crew members, which focused on following the mission scenario, supporting the crew members and developing a daily report on what happens to them, as well as following up and reviewing the mission schedule through the operations center, and analyzing data during the scientific experiments. To make a clear future plan for the various scenarios accurately, in addition to communication and psychological support for all crew members.
Important challenges
He explained that one of the most important challenges they faced within the mission was how to communicate effectively with the mission team, which varied backgrounds and nationalities, which was well prepared before the start of the mission through the training and psychological rehabilitation of the members of the mission team, Saleh Al Ameri and Abdullah Al Hammadi, to ensure the best results from this mission.
He also pointed to some other challenges that did not have a negative impact on the mission, which was the failure of some scientific devices through which they conduct experiments in a simple way, did not affect the performance of the mission, especially that the support team located outside the ground station, is characterized by its diversity of expertise in all fields, which allows him to deal with such challenges smoothly, and support their colleagues inside the isolation capsule to perform their tasks without problems.
An ongoing mission.
He added that the UAE mission to simulate space continues, and that they have many other experiments that they are working on in the future, which will be unique, such as simulating life in the Arctic and the depths of the seas and deserts, to participate in international missions belonging to other space agencies, in a step that reflects the importance of what they are doing to provide new scientific data to the global scientific community.
He also highlighted the role and mission of the UAE simulation pioneers in the coming period within the country, including workshops and scientific lectures to improve the knowledge of our students in universities and schools, which is one of the objectives of MBRSC, to qualify a new generation with the necessary information and knowledge about the space sector and national projects, and then qualify a new generation of qualified national cadres to lead current and future Emirati projects.
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The Director of the Emirates Simulation Project pointed out that the Russian side expressed its admiration for the performance of the UAE team, praising them for all their effort and perseverance within this qualitative mission, stressing that this reflects the experiences and capabilities of Al Ameri and Al Hammadi, and qualify them optimally, which matches what their counterparts get from the participating team.
Amiri ’ s experiments, which he carried out successfully and efficiently, included simulating the operation of a space robot, reducing stress in isolation, as well as virtual reality experiments, which included launching a vehicle and securing its docking with the International Space Station, flying over the Moon and Mars, and conducting an electroencephalogram experiment, in order to obtain a clear picture of brain functions in isolation. He and his colleagues collected and transported them to the lunar base, as well as using the robotic arm to capture cargo vehicles and transport equipment, Canadarm2, and many more.
Spacecraft
The Sirius 21 crew operates in a sealed body that simulates a spacecraft, while the mission ’ s experimental complex consists of autonomous, controlled life support systems that operate to specific standards, including ventilation, air conditioning, atmospheric purification, gas analysis and support for certain conditions of pressure, temperature, humidity and gas composition, as well as water supply, sanitation, electricity, electric lighting, video surveillance and fire extinguishing systems.
The complex has unique facilities to conduct pilot studies for spaceflight periods of up to 500 days and can accommodate 3 to 10 crew members, while the experiment, all systems, crew monitoring and environmental parameters are controlled from the Sirius 21 Experience Control Center.
Important Program
The Sirius 21 program is designed for a period of up to 5 years, where two phases of the program have been completed so far, including the first phase « Sirius 17 », which was for 17 days, during the period from 7 to 24 November 2017, and the second phase « Sirius 19 », 120 days and took place between 19 March and 17 July 2019. The main features of a future space exploration mission, while Sirius 23 / 22 is scheduled to launch this year for 12 months.
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Dima Al Zuhair, director of the secondary department at Al Maaref Private School, said the school intends to include this trip in its teaching and learning programs by organizing educational sessions on space and aviation, with a special focus on the long space flight and its importance.

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Educational institutions have interacted with the first long-term mission of the Arab astronauts, which is the second mission of the UAE Astronaut Program, which will be conducted by astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi for 6 months aboard the International Space Station by organizing enrichment programs for students, including the trip in teaching and learning programs « classroom and extra-curricular activities ». Information about the flight, conducting mini-tests to assess students ’ understanding of space concepts, as well as organizing lectures and workshops on space science.
Ambition and Vision
Mohammed Mutaweh, CEO of the Holding Company for Education, said that the launch of the longest mission for Arab astronauts is a new step by which the UAE flies to the world space to continue its space successes with the ambition and vision of its wise leadership, which has laid the foundation for a space sector that is moving towards the world.
He pointed out that the series of experiments and advanced research that will come out of this trip, which includes a wide range of fields, including cardiovascular system, epigenetics, botany, the study of radiation, back pain, immune system, materials science, testing and experiment techniques, fluid science and sleep science.
He noted the organization of many educational events to introduce future generations about space and space flight, and encourage them to work in this vital field.
Educational sessions
Dima Al Zuhair, director of the secondary department at Al Maaref Private School, said the school intends to include this trip in its teaching and learning programs by organizing educational sessions on space and aviation, with a special focus on the long space flight and its importance.
In addition to holding an exhibition of images, drawings, miniature models and videos related to the long space flight, to allow students to learn more about the flight, the school also prepares questions and tests to assess students' understanding of the concepts of space and space flight, with a special focus on the long space flight.
For her part, Dr. Marwa Ali, head of the Arabic language department at GSS Private School, explained that this mission will be added to the enrichment programs implemented by the school to support the educational curricula to achieve qualitative additions that help students acquire new knowledge and explore the world of space.
She pointed out that the interest of students in space and technology is taking a large space different from the past, as the UAE achieved the dreams of Arabs and achieved precedence in this field.
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Mahmoud Mohammed Farghal Mohammed, the teacher of computing, creative design and innovation, pointed out that his school inspires the spirit of global leadership in the hearts of its students by spreading this great space mission to astronauts headed by Emirati pioneer Sultan Al Neyadi.
It is a proud example for all those in the UAE and the Arab world, in his quest to reach the International Space Station and stand at the same place where the world ’ s first astronaut landed, through its educational platforms, and urged teachers to document the event with students ’ hopes and vision through the smart learning portal. Launch of the space mission on the display screens at the entrance of the school administration.
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She pointed out that the interest of students in space and technology is taking a large space different from the past, as the UAE achieved the dreams of Arabs and achieved precedence in this field.

SEE’s entertainment unit is being built by Axiom Space, which is working on its own tourism and research unit for the station, and is also scheduled to launch and join the station in 2024.

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A British company announced on Thursday that it plans to connect its first space film studio and sports arena to the International Space Station as early as 2024.
London-based Space Entertainment Enterprise (SEE) has unveiled plans for the International Space Station ’ s film, television, sports and entertainment broadcasting unit, to be launched in December 2024.
SEE ’ s entertainment unit is being built by Axiom Space, which is working on its own tourism and research unit for the station, and is also scheduled to launch and join the station in 2024.
SEE already owns an enterprise in space entertainment, and claims to be producing a film in partnership with Hollywood star Tom Cruise, which will be partly filmed on the space station.
The new entertainment center, called SEE-1, will be connected to the Axiom module, which will eventually separate from the International Space Station to form its own space station.
The company did not disclose any details on unit costs, budgets or measurements, but is expected to be 20 feet in diameter and be open to third parties making films and television.
This is part of a growing commercial shift for the iconic space facility, with the first fully private astronaut crew set to launch next month.
NASA has committed to funding the old station until 2030, and Russia has confirmed its renewed commitment by launching a new laboratory unit.
It is believed that there will be a range of commercial stations orbiting the Earth, including Axion Space, which will include SEE-1.
If launched, it would be the world ’ s first content and entertainment studios and a multi-purpose arena to operate in space.
SEE says the unit will allow artists, producers and creators to develop, produce, record and broadcast live content.
SEE co-founders Dmitry and Elena Lesnevsky noted, “It ’ s a great opportunity for humanity to move into a different world and start an exciting new chapter in space. ”
The SEE-1 module is scheduled to become operational from December 2024, at the Axiom station complex in orbit, while still connected to the International Space Station.
Once complete, the station will be ready for separation from the International Space Station in 2028.
Michael Soufridini, President and CEO of Axiom Space, said: “As the world ’ s first commercial space station, Axiom is designed to serve as the core infrastructure enabling a diversified economy of in-orbit activity.
Adding a dedicated entertainment space to Axiom ’ s commercial capabilities in the form of SEE-1 will expand the station ’ s service as a platform for a global user base and highlight the range of opportunities offered by the new space economy.
Axiom chief engineer Dr Michael Payne said: “SEE-1 will showcase the space environment benefitted from it in an unprecedented way. ”
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SEE says the unit will allow artists, producers and creators to develop, produce, record and broadcast live content.

Adding a dedicated entertainment space to Axiom’s commercial capabilities in the form of SEE-1 will expand the station’s service as a platform for a global user base and highlight the range of opportunities offered by the new space economy.

Russia is preparing to launch an actress and director into space to produce a feature film in orbit.

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Russia is preparing to launch an actress and director into space to produce a feature film in orbit.
The project was hailed by the head of the country's space agency as an opportunity to raise the profile of Russia's space program.
Actress Yulia Beresild and director Klim Shepenko are set to fly Tuesday to the International Space Station aboard the Russian Soyuz spacecraft with veteran astronaut Anton Shkaplerov, who has participated in three space missions.
After 12 days in space, Beresild and Shibenko will return to Earth with another Russian astronaut.
The crew plans to film clips from a new film called “The Challenge, ” which tells the story of a surgeon called up to the space station to rescue a crew member suffering from a heart condition.
Speaking at a press conference at the Russian launch facility at Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Beresild acknowledged that training for the mission had been arduous.
He also described it as an opportunity not repeated in a lifetime.
The 37-year-old actress added: “It ’ s a miracle, an incredible opportunity.
We worked hard and we ’ re really tired, even though we keep up our good spirits and smile. ”
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Actor and director Klim Shepenko told a news conference before the film's crew left for Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan: "This film is about the story of an ordinary person, a doctor who has nothing to do with space exploration and has never thought about it, who is offered to travel to the International Space Station and save the life of an astronaut."

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Two astronauts and two film specialists will head to the International Space Station early next month to shoot the first film in outer space.
A Russian crew of two cosmonauts and two film specialists is scheduled to fly to the International Space Station on Oct. 5 to shoot the first film in outer space aboard a Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft, the filmmakers said.
The launch of the crew to the International Space Station, which orbits the Earth at an altitude of about 354 kilometers, comes just weeks after the first full civilian crew was launched into space on a rocket and capsule developed by SpaceX, adding an element to the decades-long competition in spaceflight between Russia and the United States.
Actor and director Klim Shepenko told a news conference before the film's crew left for Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan: "This film is about the story of an ordinary person, a doctor who has nothing to do with space exploration and has never thought about it, who is offered to travel to the International Space Station and save the life of an astronaut."
Astronaut Commander Anton Shkaplerov said: “I ’ m not going to star in it but I still need to know how to make a film in an unusual place like outer space, and actress Yulia Perisild said she learned how to work as a beauty artist and fashion designer for herself.

Astronaut Commander Anton Shkaplerov said: “I’m not going to star in it but I still need to know how to make a film in an unusual place like outer space," and actress Yulia Perisild said she learned how to work as a beauty artist and fashion designer for herself.

On August 29, 2018, controllers in Houston and Moscow detected a drop in pressure on the International Space Station, indicating a possible air leak.

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Content: I.S.S.: American and Russian astronauts on the International Space Station turn from coworkers into enemies
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It is common to see wars between nations on earth.
Unexpectedly, the International Space Station, which was originally a cooperative space without borders, also experienced an enemy crisis.
The International Space Station, known simply as I.S.S., came to two Americans on this day: the scientist Kira, and the astronaut Christian, who returned to the space station.
When it comes to the space station, there is also an American commander and three other Russian astronauts of the same rank.
The International Space Station is a borderless space that symbolizes international cooperation, where six people get along amicably.
Looking at the earth without borders in space, thinking that space is a place for people to evolve.
One day, I saw a fire on the earth, which seemed to be a volcanic eruption, but the fire continued to appear and expand.
The United States team received a message from Earth Intelligence asking the American astronauts to take control of the space station at all costs.
The American commander was carrying out repairs outside the space station, but was it a Russian cosmonaut? The two groups of the I.S.S. were suspicious of each other, triggering a crisis in space.
This is a video shot in a small space, easily creating a sense of secluded fear.
In addition to the special effect of making people feel that there is no gravity, the film gives everyone an opportunity to observe life in space.
However, the winning point of the film is still able to create enough suspicion, tension and excitement in a lean hour and a half.
This is also the success of the clip: let each person's eyes and actions have their own meaning that they can hide the killer.
A seemingly friendly stranger, once a crisis occurs, every decision can be the key to deciding life and death.
Who should be trusted should only consider the most obvious, such as nationality, boundaries.
And the audience in a very short time, do not need to think more.
Because of the tense atmosphere, has let everyone wander on the steel line.
“I.S.S. ” makes the most of the audience ’ s visit to the cinema to find entertainment every minute of every second. It is recommended to score four out of five.
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The leak was traced to a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, specifically the Soyuz MS-09, which was docked to the station at the time.

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CCTV News (Focus Interview): On the afternoon of March 23, the "Tiangong Classroom" was again opened.
The three astronauts of the Shenzhou 13 flight crew once again brought wonderful space experiments to the youth of the country.
From the first space teaching of China's Shenzhou 10 flight crew in June 2013, to the second time in December last year, and then to the third time yesterday, space teaching has become a reservation project after the long-term residence of China's space station.
How does space teaching attract many young people, and what kind of ideal seeds can this kind of science popularization plant in their hearts?
The second lesson of the "Tiangong Classroom" is still in the high-speed flight of the Chinese space station, or the familiar three astronaut teachers.
This time, what has changed is the experiments that the teachers show, and what has changed is to bring a refreshing experience to the students.
Behind the fun of the experiment is the real scientific principle.
Although the principle is simple, it is not easy to perfect the presentation.
In yesterday's class, the first project: water ball becomes ice hockey using the principle that sodium acetate solution will crystallize when it encounters particles after it is saturated.
The astronaut teacher originally wanted to squeeze the solution out of the water bag, wait for the water ball to be suspended in the air and then gently touch it to complete the experiment, but in the first two attempts, the water ball has not been squeezed out of the water bag mouth has crystallized into a hockey ball.
Wei Hongxiang, a member of the "Tiangong Classroom" teaching expert group and a researcher at the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said: "We have encountered this situation many times in the laboratory. I think that if we show this process twice, we will tell the students that the experiment is like this, even if it is not done twice, this is normal."
Constant experimentation is an important part of the scientific spirit, and for students on the ground, it is impossible to understand the difference between the world and the world behind these experiments without practicing.
In order to give students a more intuitive feeling, the China Science and Technology Museum, as the science and technology experience base of China's space station, while taking on the task of the main venue, also carefully designed supporting ground synchronous experimental equipment.
"They are listening to Wang Yaping and doing it at the same time," said Liu Congchong, a teacher of science education at the Tibet Museum of Natural Science.
These students were able to get an experiment result by operation, and at the same time, they were able to draw a sharp contrast with the Tiangong experiment.
From the first space teaching in 2013, the astronauts and teachers have shown Chinese teenagers about 20 space experiments, from the Tiangong 1 spacecraft to the Chinese space station and the core cabin, the classroom has been upgraded, and the course content has been seeking breakthroughs.
Wei Hongxiang said: "Looking forward to the first lecture in 2013, at that time there is the same water ball experiment, which is the inverted image of the astronauts, last year we told the astronauts, we must add a bubble inside, add a bubble, and then stand back when you can see two images, one is inverted, one is upright, this phenomenon only in the space station, is not done on the ground."
This time on the basis of the ball began to study its crystallization, this can be seen, in fact, step by step, more and more in-depth. "
The effect of the teaching lived up to the original intention of these designers, and these experiments, which can only be done in space, caught the eyes of the children and stimulated their enthusiasm to participate.
They are not the first children to be drawn to space by astronauts.
Liu Shilin, a student of the Aerospace Academy of Harbin Institute of Technology, remembers his first experience of space teaching in his junior high school classroom in 2013.
Liu Shilin said: “I was a first-year child in 2013, when I remembered that the microgravity environment of space broke my cognition, and that water beads can form a perfect spherical shape through surface tension in microgravity, which made me very impressed. ”
So that for a while they even dreamed of becoming astronauts like them, but no physical fitness, so they chose another road, can join the ranks of assisting them, do the technology can also become their most reliable partner, and gradually guide me to the road of aerospace. "
Some of the first students to listen to space teaching, some have already gone to work, some are still studying, they may only choose space, but the heart of the dream of the universe has been looking for the right soil to take root.
Qiu Yiyun, a student at Tsinghua University, said: "After listening to Teacher Wang from junior high school, I silently planted a seed in my heart, hoping to expand my imagination and do some works combined with space."
In 2021, Qiu Yi-yun and like-minded students jointly designed a “cosmic sound box ” that can convert the collected data of outer space waveforms into the sound genes of the universe and generate the sound colors of the stars with spectra to achieve“ heaven and earth resonance ”.
Chen Zheng, an associate professor at Beijing Jiaotong University and a member of the "Tiangong Classroom" teaching expert group, said: "With such a landmark event, it will make everyone realize that the cultivation of young people is important, so that children really yearn for science.
In order to attract more people to explore the mysteries of the universe, the last two space lectures, many local ground classes are also the same as the main venue in Beijing, and are not located in schools, but with science and technology museums as the main support system.
The "Tiangong Classroom", the Chinese Science and Technology Museum through the modern science and technology museum system mobile science and technology museum and popular science caravan channels, a total of more than 2,000 sites, involving more than 2 million students.
In Hainan, Wenchang Science Museum, not far from the Wenchang Satellite Launch Center, is one of them.
In Tibet, the Tibet Museum of Natural Science, where the class is located, has also become a popular venue for many parents in Tibet to take their children to play.
In Xinjiang, when classes are divided into classes, the science and technology counselors from the Xinjiang Science and Technology Museum help students to do hands-on experiments, in addition to driving the science caravan into the school, to the students to do experiments, exhibitions, but also often drive to remote villages, for villagers to popularize China's space science knowledge.
Wei Hongxiang said: "In recent years, I think the atmosphere of popular science and science and education in the country has become stronger. We have been talking about love science, learning science and using science. In a sense, the space station is a symbol. It will plant a seed of science or a seed of dreams in different people's hearts.
Wang Yaping said that after the launch of the space station's "Ask Heaven" experimental module and "Dream Heaven" experimental module into orbit this year, we will have more powerful scientific research capabilities in orbit, and the "Tiangong Classroom" will also be more exciting.
Before each "Tiangong Classroom" begins, the manned space project will use this mailbox (cmse @ cmse.gov.cn) to open to the public for lectures, interactive questions and creative suggestions.
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Starting from the space station, starting from space teaching, so that more people, especially primary and secondary school students, can learn about science and love science, which is also an important goal of our development of space.
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A small, 2-millimeter hole was found in the orbital compartment of the Soyuz, which was causing the slow air leak.

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September 01, 2022 08: 14 | Source: People's Daily Overseas Edition
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On June 5 this year, the Shenzhou-14 manned spacecraft was successfully launched.
Qian Hang, who witnessed this historic moment at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, wrote his own feelings.
Qian Hang is the model designer of the overall design department of the First Research Institute of China Aerospace Science and Technology Group.
As a rocket designer, he and his colleagues used careful work to create a safe and reliable "manned arrows"; as a popular science volunteer, he told the public the wonderful story of China's aerospace industry with 10 years of enthusiasm.
Protecting the safety of astronauts
This year, the work of the airline has been at full capacity.
"Last month, the test module successfully docked with the space station.
The space station will soon be fully completed, Qian said. "Every astronaut is working with passion at his post to make preparations for this moment."
In the history of China's manned spaceflight, the Long March II F-series carrier rockets have carried out all manned spaceflight missions to date, with a success rate of 100 percent.
This "Chinese Divine Arrow" of manned spaceflight came from the hands of Qian's team.
In order to ensure the safety of the astronauts, the Long 2F rocket has specially designed an escape system.
In the event of a major danger before the launch vehicle throws the fairing, the escape system is responsible for keeping the astronauts out of the danger zone and providing the necessary conditions for the astronauts to return to the landing.
"If the design of a part is good or bad, it can affect the success or failure of the entire rocket," Qian said. "If the astronauts enter the rocket you are developing, it is equivalent to entrusting their lives to you."
"We must safely and reliably escort astronauts into space to live up to this trust," he said.
In order to ensure that the escape system is absolutely reliable, Qian Hang and his colleagues used meticulous and meticulous work to create the last barrier for the astronauts to protect their lives. "We developed the escape rocket according to the highest standards and the strictest quality.
But it is the wish of every astronaut to never let this function be enabled, "he said.
Ten years of “veteran ” training.
During the Shenzhou-13 mission, the Chinese astronauts set up two "Tiangong Classrooms" in space.
In the course of teaching, astronauts Wang Yaping, Zhai Zhigang and Ye Guangfu were doing experiments in space, and Qian Hang, who was a science volunteer, was busy on the ground.
In fact, this is not the first time Qian Hang has participated in space teaching activities. In 2013, when the Chinese first spoke in space, Qian Hang, who was also a doctoral student at the National Space Science Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, interpreted the space experiment in a live broadcast and successfully performed the Heaven and Earth comparison experiment.
"It was the first time that so many people did science, and looking back, it was still very young." Qian Hang said, "Now I have become a 'veteran' of space science."
"Every weekend, I take the bus to the planetarium to explain to the children who come to visit." Qian Hang said, "Face to face" science popularization practice made him realize that to do science popularization should lower his body and communicate with the children as friends and teachers, "to let everyone feel that space is not high, but It is related to life. ”
To this day, Qian Hang still often helps the planetarium to review and correct knowledge, and is often invited to participate in live TV broadcasts, enter primary and secondary school students' classrooms, and publish popular science articles.
He also published more than a dozen books on science and technology, covering the fields of manned spaceflight, lunar exploration, Mars exploration and Beidou satellite.
Cody is a job and a responsibility.
Over the years, Qian Hang has been to primary and secondary schools in many provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, leaving a footprint of space science popularization. "Some children in remote mountainous areas, although they do not have good teaching conditions, but they have a very strong yearning for space knowledge, and the children 's eager eyes have left me an unforgettable impression."
How to let more children know about space and space? In 2016, Qian Hang launched colleagues around him to form a volunteer team for "pilot science". "At present, there are more than 50 members of the team who often participate in science and technology activities, most of them are young space designers, academicians, rocket designers and so on. It works silently for space science.
Qian said that the strength of the team has further increased the depth of the content of space science popularization, and many new explorations have been made in the way.
“We organized several live events through the new media platform.
According to statistics, one of the live lectures covered 17 provinces and 62 counties, reaching 360,000 people. Qian Hang said that the popular science of new media has put forward higher requirements for science and technology workers, and it needs to use more interesting styles and languages to arouse everyone's resonance.
"Kopp is a part of my job and it is a duty.
In addition to undertaking major space missions, we should also become the leading geese in science popularization, Qian said. "Participating in science popularization is also a process of integrating scientific research, talent cultivation and giving back to society."
"I hope that more people will feel the charm of spaceflight, fall in love with the spacecraft flying into the depths of the universe, and like the shining starry sky overhead."
(Editor: Shen Jiaping, Chen Jian)
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