Russia clears actress, filmmaker for flight to International Space Station
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Russian actress Yulia Peresild and filmmaker Klim Shipenko will join cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov for a Soyuz flight to the International Space Station on October 5 to shoot scenes for an upcoming movie, the Russian space agency announced Thursday.
"At the end of 2020, an open competition was announced for the lead role in the first feature film to be filmed in space," Roscosmos said on its website. Peresild, 36, and Shipenko, 37, were selected "based on the results of medical and creative selection." Training will begin in June. "They will have to go through, among other things, tests on a centrifuge, a vibration stand, to make introductory and training flights on an airplane in zero gravity, to undergo parachute training," Roscosmos said. The training and the flight will be covered by Russia's Channel One television network.London - The wife of Julian Assange said Thursday that her husband's legal case "could be moving in the right direction" after President Biden indicated that the U.S. could drop charges against the imprisoned WikiLeaks founder. It came as supporters in several cities rallied to demand the release of Assange on the fifth anniversary of his incarceration in London's high-security Belmarsh prison.
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