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Cruise v. Russia: The New Space Race

Late last year, Sky News reported that Russian state TV Channel One would be teaming with Roscosmos, the Russian Space Agency, for Challenge – the first feature film to be shot in outer space aboard the International Space Station. The announcement came off the heels of Tom Cruise announcing that he would be partnering with NASA and SpaceX to do so as well, thus launching yet another space race, one that isn’t necessarily a “historic” milestone humanity needs to accomplish, but one that would inevitably be on its list of accomplishments. So hey, if we can afford it, why not?