Challenge is the first film shot entirely in space

After narrowly failing the landing feat, it was evident that Russia had long been devising a new way to get the better of the United States in space matters, and the fact that it has succeeded in a terrain that Americans know a lot about. well, that of cinema, says a lot about the commitment and dedication employed. The company, in this round, is called Challenge, and represents the first film shot entirely in orbit in history: the film, co-produced by the Russian space agency Roscosmos, the Channel One television station and the Yellow, Black and White studio, stars the actress Yulia Peresild as a surgeon who reaches the space station to perform an operation on a crewman, played by space veteran Novitskiy, who returned to Earth on October 18 after a 191-day mission.

Filming of the film, directed by Klim Šipenko, who also had to try his hand as a make-up artist, sound engineer and operator given the narrow spaces and the impossibility of having an entire crew available, lasted 12 days, and had the International Space Station as a location. In Challengein addition to Peresild, cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anton Shkaplerov, the latter who arrived on board last October 5, also played a part. America, however, can console itself thanks to William Shatner, who is, yes, Canadian, but also the star of one of the most famous American series of the last century: Star Trek. Shatner, who owes international fame thanks to the role of James T. Kirk, the captain of the spaceship USS Enterprise, in fact, it reached Space for the first time thanks to the space company Blue Origin, the company of Jeff Bezos, last 12 October.

At 90 years of age, Shatner he officially became the oldest person to ever reach Space. Along with the actor, there were two passengers who had, instead, paid for the ticket: Glen de Vries, co-founder of a health services company; Chris Boshuizen, former NASA engineer and co-founder of Planet Labs, a company that develops small satellites.