CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Notes: “The Challenge” is the world’s first movie to be shot in space. Russian actress and a director along with a cosmonaut returned to Earth after spending 12 days in the International Space Station (ISS) shooting scenes for the movie. The trio departed ISS in their Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft, according to NASA.

Detailed explanation-2: -Russia has beat the United States to be the first country to film a movie in space and aboard the International Space Station.

Detailed explanation-3: -International Space Station (ISS), space station assembled in low Earth orbit largely by the United States and Russia, with assistance and components from a multinational consortium. The project, which began as an American effort, was long delayed by funding and technical problems.

Detailed explanation-4: -Klim Shipenko and actor Yulia Peresild left the International Space Station and landed in Kazakhstan - to be met by a crew filming touchdown scenes. The ISS shooting was not without drama - suitable for a film called Challenge.

Detailed explanation-5: -The ISS consists of Canada, Japan, the Russian Federation, the United States, and eleven Member States of the European Space Agency (Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom).