{"id":17723,"date":"2020-05-04T18:28:24","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T10:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/nasa-confirms-its-working-with-tom-cruise-and-spacex-to-make-a-movie-on-space-station\/"},"modified":"2020-05-04T18:28:24","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T10:28:24","slug":"nasa-confirms-its-working-with-tom-cruise-and-spacex-to-make-a-movie-on-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/nasa-confirms-its-working-with-tom-cruise-and-spacex-to-make-a-movie-on-space-station\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA confirms it\u2019s working with Tom Cruise (and SpaceX?) to make a movie on space station"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_561827\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-561827\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-561827\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cruise4-630x487.jpg\" alt=\"Tom Cruise\" width=\"630\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cruise4-630x487.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cruise4-1260x974.jpg 1260w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cruise4-768x594.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cruise4.jpg 1455w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-561827\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom Cruise played a drone repairman who turned into an action hero in the 2013 sci-fi movie \u201cOblivion.\u201d (Universal Pictures)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has confirmed in a tweet that the space agency is working with movie star Tom Cruise on a project that involves shooting a film on the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Deadline Hollywood reported on Monday that a space movie project involving NASA and SpaceX is in the works, but that \u201cno studio is in the mix at this stage.\u201d Bridenstine followed up with a tweet saying that NASA was \u201cexcited\u201d to be working with Cruise, and explaining that \u201cw<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">e need popular media to inspire a new generation of engineers and scientists to make NASA\u2019s<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\"> ambitious plans a reality.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li>SpaceX is currently focusing on preparations for its first-ever crewed mission, a demonstration flight to the International Space Station that makes use of the company\u2019s Crew Dragon capsule. If the movie deal comes together, Cruise could to take a Crew Dragon flight to the station under NASA\u2019s recently established commercialization rules \u2014&nbsp;though it\u2019d be more fun to put him aboard the yet-to-be-launched Starship super-spaceship.<\/li>\n<li>Cruise isn\u2019t the first performer said to be interested in spaceflight for professional purposes. Others who have considered in-space performance projects, so far without success, include film director James Cameron (who says he once talked with Cruise about doing a space movie) and a variety of singers including Lance Bass, Sarah Brightman and Lady Gaga.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>Update for 2:20 p.m. PT May 5: <\/strong>We\u2019ve updated this report with Bridenstine\u2019s confirmation that a deal is under discussion.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Cruise played a drone repairman who turned into an action hero in the 2013 sci-fi movie \u201cOblivion.\u201d (Universal Pictures) NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has confirmed in a tweet that the space agency is working with movie star Tom Cruise on a project that involves shooting a film on the International Space Station. Deadline Hollywood [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1045,4550,190,316,2230],"class_list":["post-17723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-elon-musk","tag-movies","tag-nasa","tag-spacex","tag-tom-cruise"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}