Russian filmmakers head for Earth from space station

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FILE - In this Oct. 7, 2021, record photograph taken from video footage released by Roscosmos Space Agency, histrion Yulia Peresild, left, movie manager Klim Shipenko, center, and cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov talk with the Moscow Mission Control Center from the International Space Station, ISS. A Soyuz abstraction capsule carrying a cosmonaut and 2 Russian filmmakers has separated from the International Space Station and is heading for the Earth. The separation took spot connected docket astatine 0115 GMT Sunday, Oct. 17, with Oleg Novitskiy, Yulia Peresild and Klim Shipenko aboard for a descent of astir 3 1/2 hours. (Roscosmos Space Agency via AP, File)

MOSCOW – A Soyuz abstraction capsule carrying a cosmonaut and 2 Russian filmmakers has separated from the International Space Station and is heading for the Earth.

The separation took spot connected docket astatine 0115 GMT Sunday with Oleg Novitskiy, Yulia Peresild and Klim Shipenko aboard for a descent of astir 3 1/2 hours.

Actress Peresild and movie manager Shipenko rocketed to the abstraction presumption connected Oct. 5 for a 12-day stint connected the presumption to movie segments of a movie titled “Challenge,” successful which a surgeon played by Peresild rushes to the abstraction presumption to prevention a unit subordinate who needs an urgent cognition successful orbit. Novitskiy, who spent much than six months aboard the abstraction station, plays the ailing cosmonaut successful the movie.

The abstraction capsule is to onshore successful the steppes of Kazakhstan.

Seven astronauts stay aboard the abstraction station: Russia's Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov; Americans Mark Vande Hei, Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur; Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency; and Japan's Aki Hoshide.

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