Veteran Hollywood actor, Tom Cruise has partnered up with NASA to film a movie in outer space.
As per the details, NASA has decided to collaborate with Tom Cruise on a project that will see the veteran actor shoot a movie in outer space while staying at multi-billion dollar International Space Station (ISS) hovering 250 miles above the earth.
“Excited to work Tom Cruise on a film aboard the space station. We need popular media to inspire a new generation of engineers and scientists to make NASA’s ambitious plans a reality,” tweeted NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine.
Cruise, the 57-year-old is known for performing his own stunts. He flew fighter planes for the upcoming Top Gun: Maverick, hung off the side of a plane as it took off in Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation in 2015 and climbed Dubai’s Burj Khalifa skyscraper – the tallest building in the world – for Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol.
In addition to it, Russia is the only country with the capability to transport people to and from the ISS. However, American private companies such as SpaceX and Boeing have been working on such projects. SpaceX has not confirmed its role in the film project, but Cruise could fly to the space station on the company’s Crew Dragon spaceship. The Crew Dragon is designed to carry up to four people to and from low Earth orbit.
It is to be noted that ISS is a joint project between five participating space agencies: NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), JAXA (Japan), ESA (Europe), and CSA (Canada). The ISS has hosted just 239 people since being launched in 1998, with six people on board at any one time.
