Shatner will join Blue Origin’s Audrey Powers, former NASA engineers Dr. Chris Boshuizen and Glen de Vries of Dassault Systemes aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard NS-18 mission. (Image credit: Willian Shatner via Twitter)
Willian Shatner of Star Trek fame is finally headed to space next week aboard Blue Origins’ New Shepard NS-18 tourist mission. He will be joined by Blue Origin’s Vice President of Mission & Flight Operations Audrey Powers, former NASA engineers Dr. Chris Boshuizen and Glen de Vries, Vice-Chair of Life Sciences & Healthcare at Dassault Systemes. The launch, scheduled for liftoff on October 12, will put the four into a suborbital flight and then return to earth safely at its west Texas launchpad a short time later.
Russian actress Yulia Peresild and director Klim Shipenko, joined by Cosmonauts, have docked at the ISS to film the first movie in space. (Image credit: Reuters)
In related news, Russian actress Yulia Peresild and film director Klim Shipenko have docked with the ISS and will spend 12 days filming the movie “The Challenge.” The movie centers around Cosmonaut Ivanov, who loses consciousness while his spacecraft is in flight. Doctors, one played by Yulia, must perform heart surgery in zero-G in order for him to survive. The mission is the first movie to be filmed in space, beating Tom Cruise and director Doug Liman, who is also due to travel to the ISS in October to make a still-untitled movie.
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