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Russia leads the Space Race again - The box office movie smash you probably haven't heard about... [1]

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Date: 2023-04-24

For those of you who don't read Cyrillic, that's "The Challenge" also billed as "Doctor's House Call" Yulia Peresild is the surgeon rushed to the ISS to perform life-saving surgery on a cosmonaut. This is the first full feature length film partially filmed in space.

Something I ran across while looking to see if TASS had commented on Tucker Carlson’s abrupt departure from Fox News. Carlson has been a regular feature on Russian TV for obvious reasons. I didn’t find anything, but I did find this movie news.

John Wick: Chapter 4 and Misanthrope were in second and third place

MOSCOW, April 24. /TASS/. Russia’s Challenge motion picture which was partially filmed onboard the International Space Station (ISS) became a box office hit in Russia and CIS countries, earning 426 mln rubles (more than $5.2 mln) over the weekend, according to data by kinobusiness.com for April 20-23. Klim Shipenko’s space drama went into wide release on April 20. The film tells the story of thoracic surgeon Zhenya, who has just one month to prepare for a space flight to the ISS to save a cosmonaut's life. His chances of returning to Earth alive will depend on the outcome of a highly complex surgical operation that she will have to perform under conditions of weightlessness. The film stars Yulia Peresild, Milos Bikovic, Vladimir Mashkov, Oleg Novitsky, Anton Shkaplerov, Elena Valyushkina, Pyotr Dubrov and others. John Wick: Chapter 4 and Misanthrope were in second and third place, earning 31.3 mln rubles (about $384,000) and 15 mln rubles ($184,000) respectively over the weekend.

I will admit this has been under my radar, but the details are intriguing.

Tom Cruise is reportedly planning a film to be shot in space — it sounds like it’s going to be done on a new module being built for the ISS and may involve collaboration with SpaceX and Axiom Space.

..The project was first confirmed in 2020 by NASA's then-director Jim Bridenstine. Deadline reported at that time that Elon Musk's SpaceX was also going to collaborate on the film. Space Entertainment Enterprise announced in January this year that it would work with Axiom Space to build a content and entertainment studio and "multi-purpose arena" space station module. The venture, called SEE-1, is planned to launch in late 2024 and would be connected to the Axiom Station, a commercial module planned for the International Space Station.

Here’s a news report showing some clips from the film and giving some background.

This is all the more remarkable considering the tensions between Russia and everyone else. Somehow the International Space Station still manages to provide one area of cooperation. Lest anyone think the ISS is just a glorified boondoggle where they do nothing but shoot movies, they have a pretty busy schedule which you can follow at the link.

Note: for those who want an entertaining and suspenseful look at the problems of space medicine, the late Lee Correy (G. Harry Stine) wrote a 1981 novel Space Doctor that looked at the challenges of running a space hospital during the construction of the first commercial Solar Power Satellite. It has fascinating discussions on the problems of trying to work in zero gravity — how do you run an IV drip without gravity, and how do you do lab tests when your reagents keep trying to float around? What do you do when you need an ambulance? What do you do when a solar flare storm hits? All this — plus the challenge of building a massive construction project in space that will bring clean power to Earth, and the politics that go with it. (And there’s a love story, of course.)

And in case people have forgotten, Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield filmed a powerful video from the ISS coming up on10 years ago.

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