“Mission Impossible” star Tom Cruise could become the first civilian to carry out a space walk outside the International Space Station — a stunt previously described as a "lot of fun" by Tesla Inc TSLA CEO Elon Musk.
What Happened: In a recent interview with the BBC, Donna Langley, the Chair of Universal Filmed Entertainment Group, a unit of Comcast Corporation CMCSA, said she has plans to send Cruise to the ISS in a rocket.
Langley said the film project for which the actor would be sent up into space was proposed by Cruise himself in a Zoom meeting during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to BBC.
She said Cruise will be “the first civilian to do a spacewalk outside of the space station.”
While Universal has signed the film, it is still an aspirational project, according to the BBC report.
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Why It Matters: In 2020, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine tweeted, as reported by BBC, “Nasa is excited to work with Tom Cruise on a film aboard the Space Station!"
Musk had responded to Bridenstine’s now-deleted tweet in May 2020, saying “Should be a lot of fun!”
SpaceX, a company headed by Musk, was reported to be working with Cruise on the film project in 2020 by Deadline.
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