it’s no secret that traveling to space is a costly business but a Russian space movie crew is set to breaking their savings and take a shot at venturing into outer space.

International Space Station on the fifth of October will blast off to Outer Space onboard a vehicle Soyuz MS-19 to shoot a movie.

The launch of this crew, to the International Space Station, which orbits around the Earth at an altitude of about 354 km, comes just weeks after the launch of the first full civilian crew into space aboard a rocket and capsule developed by the company. SpaceX, which adds an element to the decades-long competition in the field of Spaceflight between Russia and the United States.

Actor and director Klim Shipenkoujj said at a press conference before the film crew left for Baikonur base Satellite in Kazakhstan: “This movie is about the story of an ordinary person…a doctor who has nothing to do with space exploration and who never thought about it, and is offered to travel to the International Space Station…and save a life. astronaut”, according to Reuters.

The two professional astronauts on the crew will also appear in the film.

Cosmonaut Commander Anton Shkaplerov said, “I’m not going to star in it but I still need to figure out how to make a movie in an unusual place like outer space”.

This comes six decades after Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit Earth, earning Moscow a key win in the Cold War, Russia is again in a space race with Washington.

If their plan falls into place, the Russians are expected to beat Mission Impossible star Tom Cruise and Hollywood director Doug Liman, who were first to announce their project together with NASA and Space X, the company of billionaire Elon Musk.