The first feature film shot in space has opened in Russian cinemas, with Moscow celebrating beating a rival Hollywood project. The Challenge is about a surgeon who is sent to the International Space Station (ISS) to save an injured cosmonaut. Russia sent an actor and a film director to the ISS for 12 days in October 2021 to film scenes onboard the orbiting laboratory. A Hollywood project was announced in 2020 by Tom Cruise in collaboration with Nasa and Elon Musk’s SpaceX