Russian crew set for lift off to film first movie in spaceDirector Klim Shipenko (R) said the space movie would be 'an experiment'. MOSCOW: Russia on Tuesday is set to launch an actress and a film director into space in a bid to best the United States to the first movie made in orbit. Actress Yulia Peresild, 37, and film director Klim Shipenko, 38, are expected to take off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in ex-Soviet Kazakhstan at 8.55am GMT (3.55pm Thailand). Clad in a flight suit, director Shipenko called the film "an experiment" at an online press conference on Monday. Compared to the Soviet era -- when Moscow launched the first satellite Sputnik and sent the first man, Yuri Gagarin, into space -- Russia has struggled to innovate.
