Shipenko and Peresild Underwent Four Months of Training
On Thursday, 20 April 2023, Moscow exulted as the first feature film shot in space premiered in Russian cinemas—thereby beating a rival Hollywood project to the proverbial punch at an historical juncture characterized by renewed tensions between Russia and the Western world. Titled The Challenge, the Russian film tells the fictitious but plausible story of a surgeon dispatched to the International Space Station for purpose of saving an injured cosmonaut.
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