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Month: October 2021

The Russian team that shot the first film in space return to Earth

The Russian actress and director, who spent 12 days on board the International Space Station (ISS) to shoot the first film in space, landed back on Earth on Sunday morning.

The Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft carrying actress Yulia Peressild, film director Klim Chipenko and cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky arrived in the steppes of Kazakhstan at 04:36, the scheduled time, according to images broadcast live by the Russian space agency.

The head of Russia's space agency, Dmitri Rogozine, published photographs of his team en route to the landing site in ten helicopters before they returned to Earth.

The Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft carrying actress Yulia Peressild, film director Klim Chipenko and cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky arrived in the steppes of Kazakhstan at 04:36, the scheduled time, according to images broadcast live by the Russian space agency.

 

The Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft carrying the crew of the 1st film in space is about to land on the steppes of Kazakhstan. [Sergei Savostyanov / POOL / Sputnik - AFP]

Competition with the United States

Ahead of a rival American project with Tom Cruise, Yulia Peressild, 37, and Klim Chipenko, 38, took off on 5 October from the Russian cosmodrome at Baikonur in Kazakhstan, alongside veteran cosmonaut Anton Chkaplerov.

Their film, provisionally entitled "The Challenge", will feature a surgeon who travels to the ISS on a mission to save the life of a cosmonaut.

Against a backdrop of Russian-American rivalry, this cinematic adventure also takes on the air of a new space race, 60 years after the USSR put the first man, Yuri Gagarin, into orbit.

This initiative comes in the midst of a non-scientific rush into space, with an increasing number of leisure flights in recent months, such as those by British billionaire Richard Branson and American billionaire Jeff Bezos.

Text RTS info ats/iar

Lebanon suffers power cuts since Saturday

Once the sun goes down, Lebanon is completely in the dark.

The country was plunged into a total blackout on Saturday after two major power stations were shut down for lack of fuel.

" After the Deir Ammar power station was forced to stop producing electricity yesterday morning due to the exhaustion of its diesel reserves, the Zahrani power station also stopped this afternoon for the same reason." said the EDL in a statement. 

A source at the Ministry of Energy told AFP that efforts were being made to " to find a solution to the problem" . In its press release, the EDL stated thatA tanker was due to arrive on Saturday evening and be unloaded early next week.

These power cuts are paralysing people's lives and several vital sectors, while private generator operators are also rationing shops, hospitals and homes as fuel becomes scarcer.

Towards new reforms?

Mired in an unprecedented crisis, the country has been experiencing draconian power rationing for months now, and is struggling to import fuel, against a backdrop of a historic plunge in the national currency and a drying up of foreign exchange reserves.

Formed in September after 13 months of political wrangling, thehe new government has pledged to initiate reforms in the electricity sector and gradually restore public power.

Lebanon is negotiating with Egypt and Jordan to supply gas and electricity via Syria, while the Shiite movement Hezbollah has announced several deliveries of Iranian fuel oil in recent weeks to alleviate the serious shortages of electricity and fuel.

An agreement has also been reached between the authorities and Iraq for the distribution of Iraqi oil to Lebanon in return for medical services.

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