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.
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