by Jeff Foust — October 5, 2021 Actress Yulia Peresild (left) and director Klim Shipenko (right) joined Roscosmos cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov on the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft that flew to the ISS Oct. 5. Credit: Roscosmos
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — A Soyuz spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station Oct. 5 carrying a cosmonaut as well as an actress and director who will film scenes for a Russian movie.
A Soyuz-2 rocket lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4:55 a.m. Eastern and placed the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft into orbit. The Soyuz docked with the Rassvet module of the ISS at 8:22 a.m. Eastern after a two-orbit approach. The spacecraft’s commander, Anton Shkaplerov, had to perform a manual docking after a problem with the automated Kurs docking system.