Actress Yulia Peressild, the first non-cosmonaut woman to set off to shoot a film in the stars, came back to Earth on Sunday, October 17, 2021, as confirmed by the Russian agency Roscosmos.
She was not a cosmonaut but had to undergo intensive and accelerated training to be able to fly out of the atmosphere. Actress by profession, Youlia Peressild is the first woman to go to space for the needs of her profession. To overtake the Americans, who planned to direct the first feature film in orbit with actor Tom Cruise and director Doug Liman, in collaboration with NASA and Space X, the Russians have gone at lightning speed. The US team’s flight was originally scheduled for fall 2021, but the Soviets took off on Tuesday, October 5, 2021 aboard Soyuz MS-19. The conquest of space is also that! Cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov took the 37-year-old actress and director Klim Shipenko to the International Space Station where they filmed for twelve days. Sunday October 17, the Russian agency Roscosmos announced that the spacecraft had returned to Earth and landed in the steppes of Kazakhstan at 4:36 a.m., as scheduled.
Neither scientist nor tourist, Youlia Peressild accomplished a feat by confronting the stars. This performer, who distinguished herself only in works from her country, shot between 35-40 minutes of sequences in extraordinary conditions. For The Challenge, Where The challenge in French, she played a woman doctor rushed to the ISS to try to save a sick astronaut whose repatriation the state refuses.
A new turning point in the history of the conquest of space
On site, all the astronauts played extras like the station commander Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency (ESA). “Our new crew members Klim and Yulia shoot scenes for their movie all day long, we can’t wait to see the results!“, the Frenchman explained on his Twitter account on Tuesday, October 12. A historic journey that will surely bring the sweet face of Youlia Peressild into future history books!