Tom Cruise and Director Doug Liman will fly to space on October 2021 on a SpaceX Crew Dragon flight. They will film Tom Cruise’s new movie.
So its confirmed that @CommanderMLA is flying the @Axiom_Space @SpaceX #CrewDragon tourist mission with Director @DougLiman & Tom Cruise. One seat still to be filled. They are to launch in October, 2021. pic.twitter.com/dn6SLvCOGz
— Space Shuttle Almanac (@ShuttleAlmanac) September 19, 2020
Nat'l Space Council: "As the US leads humanity in deep space exploration, a long-term presence in low-Earth orbit will remain vital. … A variety of future space stations, in diverse orbital locations, commercially owned & operated, will succeed [ISS]."
Under construction now. pic.twitter.com/Z1qz3hnqGo
— Axiom Space (@Axiom_Space) July 28, 2020
SOURCES- SpaceX, NASA, Space Shuttle Almanac
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I dunno, not Tom Cruise was pretty good in this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-LkbsFpC7I
That South Park episode on Scientology still cracks me up.
I laughed so hard when I read this. Bravo DrPat!
Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Besides it's his life. If he wants to risk it, who are we to tell him otherwise?
He just wants to visit Xenu in person.
Thor Heyerdahl is on the phone, he'd like a word with you.
Hopefully it works out better than the last time a publicity stunt of this sort was attempted… Granted, the odds are in his favor.
Since he insists on doing all of his stunts, he's going to get himself killed one of these days. Can't imagine the size of the policy the studio has on him. Figure the rest of his career is good for a couple billion box office, at least. It's all ego.
He gets to write off a freaking trip to space.
"Tom Cruise is Tom Cruise crazy." (from the song, Tom Cruise Crazy, by Jonathan Coulton)
He evidently does not use stunt doubles. He does all his own stunts.
Just shut up and take that money – don't look a gift horse in the mouth. Hollywood elites have fallen in love with space. They have the money to pay for flights. No further questions required.
Super risky
We have real life CGI, can simulate every scenario/adventure, this stunt is not practical and dangerous.
Our tech is still to primitive to do such things comfortably(going to space for fun, space tourism etc.)
Our rockets can't even go into space more than 100 times in a row reliably, without blowing up
No alien is going to get into a 2021 human spacecraft.
That's the technological, and risk, equivalent of doing a mid ocean transfer from a modern ship to a bark canoe. With a weather front rolling in.
And his stunt doubles, what are they going to do, fuxx with Alien?
Tom Cruise is completely nuts, now let's see what space will do him…