Go for launch! Tom Cruise gets October 2021 date for NASA/SpaceX trip to make movie on board the International Space Station
- Space Shuttle Almanac tweeted a graph of planned launches to ISS
- It showed Cruise and director Doug Liman listed as tourists on the October 2021 launch piloted by NASA and Space Shuttle veteran Michael Lopez-Alegria
- The Hollywood star’s plan to film on the ISS was announced earlier this year
- Additional details of the project are not yet known
He’s renowned for taking risks as the star of the Mission: Impossible movies.
And now Tom Cruise is confirmed for what’s probably his most daring mission yet.
It seems the Hollywood star, 58, will be on board the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule on its scheduled October 2021 trip to the International Space Station, according to Space Shuttle Almanac.
Mission Possible: Tom Cruise’s plan to make a movie on board the International Space Station is set for October 2021 as Hollywood star gets first tourist seat in SpaceX Dragon Crew
As first reported by NME.com on Tuesday, the Space Shuttle Almanac tweeted out a graph of the upcoming planned launches to the ISS complete with crew manifests.
Aboard the first tourist trip, the schedule notes, will be Cruise and director Doug Liman, 55.
NASA and Space Shuttle veteran Michael Lopez-Alegria will be the pilot on the trip and there is one, as yet unfilled, tourist place available in the new four-person Crew Dragon.
It had been announced earlier this year that Cruise and Liman had teamed up with SpaceX founder Elon Musk and NASA to make a movie aboard the ISS.
Official: The Space Shuttle Almanac on Friday tweeted out a graph of the upcoming launches to the ISS complete with crew manifests with Cruise and director Doug Liman included
In command: NASA and Space Shuttle veteran Michael Lopez-Alegria will be the pilot on the trip and there is one, as yet unfilled, tourist place available in the new four-person Crew Dragon