Russian filmmakers land after shoot aboard space station

MOSCOW — A Soyuz abstraction capsule carrying a cosmonaut and 2 Russian filmmakers has landed aft a 3 1/2-hour travel from the International Space Station.

The capsule, descending nether a red-and-white striped parachute aft entering Earth’s atmosphere, landed upright successful the steppes of Kazakhstan connected docket astatine 0435 GMT Sunday with Oleg Novitskiy, Yulia Peresild and Klim Shipenko aboard.

Actress Peresild and movie manager Shipenko rocketed to the abstraction presumption connected Oct. 5 for a 12-day stint 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, is to prima arsenic the ailing cosmonaut successful the movie.

After the landing, which sent plumes of particulate flying precocious successful the air, crushed crews extracted the 3 abstraction flyers from the capsule and placed them successful seats acceptable up adjacent arsenic they adjusted to the propulsion of gravity. They were past taken to a aesculapian structure for examination.

All appeared steadfast and cheerful. Peresild smiled and held a ample bouquet of achromatic flowers arsenic journalists clustered astir her. But she said she besides felt a interaction of melancholy.

“I’m feeling a spot bittersweet today. It seemed that 12 days would beryllium a lot, but I did not privation to permission erstwhile everything was over,” Peresild said connected authorities TV.

The transportation to the aesculapian structure was delayed for astir 10 minutes portion crews filmed respective takes of Peresild and Novitskiy successful their seats, which are to beryllium included successful the movie. More scenes stay to beryllium changeable connected Earth for the movie whose merchandise day is uncertain.

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.