Everything we know—and don’t—about Tom Cruise’s plans to film a movie in space

Enlarge / Tom Cruise, at center, poses with NASA astronauts at the 2002 premiere of the IMAX film Space Station 3D at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. From left to right: Robert Curbeam, Marsha Ivins, Koichi Wakata, Scott Altman, Nancy Currie-Gregg, Bill Shepherd, Susan Helms, IMAX producer Toni Myers, James Voss, Yuri Usachov, Yuri Lonchakov, Jim Newman and Brian Duffy. (credit: collectSPACE.com)

For some in the space community, it sounded like the rehash of an old rumor: Tom Cruise Plots Movie To Shoot In Space..." read the headline of a Deadline Hollywood article published last month.

The exclusive"-all three paragraphs of it-was short on details, but the mention of Cruise and space was all that was needed for other publications to want to run with the story and for social media to light up with the news.

But this was not the first time that had happened.

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