MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian actor and a film director rocketed to space Tuesday on a mission to make the world’s first movie in orbit, a project the Kremlin said
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Actor Yulia Peresild and director Klim Shipenko blasted off for the International Space Station in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft together with cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, a veteran of three space missions. Their Soyuz MS-19 lifted off as scheduled at 1:55 p.m. (0855 GMT) from the Russian space launch facility in Baikonur, Kazakhstan and arrived at the station after about 3½ hours.
ISS astronauts had to take shelter and be ready to evacuate as there was the possibility of a collision between the ISS and space debris generated from a Russian space weapon test.
The first operation to ever collide a spacecraft with an asteroid is set to launch Wednesday (Nov. 24) and will see whether humans can deflect a potentially disastrous cosmic impact.
Enos the chimpanzee orbited the Earth before John Glenn's historic Mercury flight. Neither Enos or John were happy about that, unlike earlier space chimp Ham.
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