He is known’ for taking risks as the star of Mission: Impossible movies.
And now Tom Cruise has confirmed what his
perhaps the bravest mission is.
According to the space shuttle Almanac,
the 58-year-old Hollywood star looks set to board the International Space
Station's own schedule, the Space X Crew Dragon Capsule, in October 2021.
As first reported by NME.com on Tuesday,
the space shuttle Al-Almanac tweeted a graph of upcoming planned launches,
complete with crew statements.
On the first tourist trip, in the schedule
note, will be Cruz and director Doug Lyman, 55.
NASA and space shuttle veteran Michael
Lopez Alegria will be the pilot of the trip, and there is a place for tourists
in a magnificent dragon on February 4.
Earlier this year, it was announced’ that
Cruz and Lyman had teamed up with SpaceX founder Elon Musk and NASA to make a
film on ISS.
Back in May, NASA Administrator Jim Burden
Stein tweeted: 'NASA is excited to be working with Tom Cruise in a movie aboard
the Space_T station!'
"We need popular media to inspire a
new generation of engineers and scientists to make NASA's ambitious plans a
reality," he explained.
Nothing is known’ about Cruz's plans to
shoot into space, except that he believes that Lehman wrote a draft screenplay
for the project.
It is also reported that Cruise's Mission:
Impossible Fellow Christopher McCurry is also in the film.
Cruz and Lemon starred together in the
films American Made, released in 2017, and Age of Tomorrow, 2014.
Cruz has never hesitated to take up bold
challenges for his films and he is known’ for his detailed preparations and
bold stunts.
In 2016, the actor broke his ankle while
performing a roof-to-ceiling jump on the London-based set of Mission:
Impossible - Consequences.
He also famously hung himself on a plane
when the jet-set off for a scene in 2015's Mission: Impossible - Wicked Nation
and in 2011's Impossible - Ghost Protocol on the skyscraper Buri Khalifa in
Dubai. had gone.
On May 30, the public-private partnership
between NASA and Elon Musk's SpaceX took a huge leap when the crew aboard the
Falcon 9 rocket was launched’ from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
NASA astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert
Behnken launched the first International Space Station spacecraft from the United
States in 2011 after the last flight of NASA's space shuttle fleet.
The mission was a complete success with
the astronauts returning safely to Earth on August 2.
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