The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is not yet planning to launch rockets for filming movies in space. This was announced on Monday, December 20, by the head of the American program of the International Space Station (ISS) Joel Montalbano.
"There are private companies that have ideas about what they would like to do in space. And they are obliged to submit and coordinate them with NASA. Now there are no launches in the schedule for the purpose of filming a movie," he explained in an interview with TASS.
At the same time, Montalbano stressed that if a private film company "has a mission concept for filming a movie, they should submit it to NASA."
Back in May 2020, ex-NASA director James Bridenstine announced that Hollywood actor Tom Cruise would play a role in an adventure film directed by Doug Lyman, the filming of which was supposed to be partially carried out on the ISS. It was expected that filming would take place on the Crew Dragon ship in the fall of 2021.
Earlier, on October 17, the descent vehicle of the Soyuz MS-18 manned spacecraft with actress Yulia Peresild and director Klim Shipenko on board landed in Kazakhstan after filming the feature film "The Challenge". Later, the members of kinoekipazh stated that they were quite well prepared for a flight into space and "well understood how and what was happening."
The picture shot on the ISS is a joint project of Roscosmos, Channel One and the studio Yellow, Black and White.
