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Russia sends a famous actress and an award-winning director to fly to the International Space Station and make the first movie in space
The drama has the working title Challenge. This is the story of a female surgeon's mission to perform an operation on a cosmonaut too ill to return to Earth immediately.
Russia's Roscosmos space agency says it wants to show space opening up for a wider range of people. Actress Yulia Peresild and director Klim Shipenko will blast off in a Russian rocket from Baikonur cosmodrome on 5 October.
Roscosmos has also announced that Japanese online fashion tycoon Yusaku Maezawa will go on a 12-day trip to the ISS in December.
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