Tom Cruise About Future Space Movie
The producers of Tom Cruise’s future space movie on Thursday announced plans to attach a studio to the International Space Station in development by Houston-based company Axiom.
U.K.-based studio Space Entertainment Enterprise, co-founded by producers Elena and Dmitry Lesnevsky, contracted Axiom to build the module. Called SEE-1, the module would be “the world’s first content and entertainment studios and multipurpose arena in space.”
SEE-1 is scheduled to launch in December 2024. It will attach to Axiom’s first module that the company plans to connect to its space station in September 2024.
“Adding a dedicated entertainment venue to Axiom Station’s commercial capabilities in the form of SEE-1 will expand the station’s utility as a platform for a global user base and highlight the range of opportunities the new space economy offers,” Axiom president and CEO Michael Suffredini said in a statement.
A Space Entertainment Enterprise (SEE) spokesperson said in an email to CNBC that the company is “in production on the upcoming Tom Cruise movie, which will be filmed in space.” Cruise has yet to comment publicly on the space film, but NASA announced in 2020 that the agency is working with the actor on the movie.
Financial details of the studio’s contract with Axiom were not disclosed, and little is known about Cruise’s unnamed project — including how much it will cost.
“The company is currently in discussions with investors and commercial partners on the project with a further fundraising round planned shortly,” Space Entertainment Enterprise said in a press release.
The SEE-1 module is an inflatable module, according to Axiom, which will have a diameter of nearly 20 feet. Using inflatable modules is an increasingly popular approach of private companies developing space stations to build large living areas, due to the advantage of launching in a smaller form factor and then expanding to a greater volume once in space.
Defunct space company Bigelow Aerospace connected its inflatable BEAM module to the International Space Station in 2016, which NASA continues to use for cargo storage on the research laboratory.
Axiom previously won a $140 million NASA contract to attach its first habitable module to the ISS. The company then plans to detach its modules before the ISS retires, to create the free-flying Axiom Station.
NASA astronaut issues warning to Tom Cruise about the smell on the ISS
A NASA astronaut warned Tom Cruise about all the smells he’ll encounter on the International Space Station while shooting his upcoming space movie in collaboration with Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
The astronaut shared his wisdom and even admitted that spacewalks aren’t the walk in the park many assume them to be.
The upcoming film will reportedly be named Luna Park and according to Futurism, Glover, who is a NASA astronaut had a one-on-one conversation with the actor about his upcoming mission and left him a few pointers to abide by.
The conversation occurred on the podcast The Body In Space and there the astronaut was quoted saying, "you notice the smell the strongest because you kind of get saturated and you get used to it after."
He even gave an in-depth idea of the areas where the smell tends to become the worst and explained that he should be careful of the area surrounding the bathroom since "that's the most odoriferous module."
While some of the ISS’s (International Space Station) areas smell like a hospital, the areas surrounding the bathroom are akin to a locker room.
During the course of the conversation he even explained what it’s like to do space walks and added that "It's like running two marathons but on your hands the whole time," because legs are rarely used.
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