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On Sunday, October 21, 2001, at 10:59 a.m. Paris time, the 1,663rd Russian spaceship Soyouz took off from the Baikonour (Kazakhstan). On board: the French astronaut Claudie Haigneré, chief engineer (a first for a non-Russian scientist), and her Russian teammates, Viktor Afanassiev and Constantin Kozeev. Their destination: the international space station (ISS), jointly run by the Russians, the Americans, and, to a lesser extant, the Europeans. At 44, Claudie Haigneré also became the first Frenchwoman, and the first European, to step aboard the ISS. During the flight and the stay on the ISS, 10 days in all, cameras in the Soyouz and the station relayed the filmmaker back in Moscow at the Tsoup (Flight Control) with Claudie's family and the engineers, in video linkup or daily radio contact with the crew. In interviews with the filmmaker, Claudie talks about how she got to where she is, the stakes involved of her mission, her life as an astronaut and her friendship with the Russians.

France - 2001 - 52 mn - DV Cam, Betacam SP - Colour

Réalisation Gilles Cayatte Scénario Gilles Cayatte Image Gilles Cayatte Son Gilles Cayatte Montage Fabien Boucheseiche

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