OUT OF THIS WORLD

Tom Cruise officially going to space in 2021 for next movie as ex-wife Katie Holmes’ new romance heats up

Caroline Feraday

Published: 1:32, 23 Sep 2020

MISSION Impossible star Tom Cruise is known for going the extra mile for his action packed movies.

And the star is confirmed for his most daring mission yet - one which will be, literally, out of this world.

Actor Tom Cruise (pictured 2002) is going into space in October 2021 to film for his next movieCredit: Photo by Manny Ceneta/Getty Images

The 58-year-old movie star will be on board the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule on its scheduled October 2021 trip to the International Space Station, according to .

They tweeted out a graph of the upcoming planned launches to the ISS complete with crew manifests, as first reported by on Tuesday.

Aboard the first tourist trip will be Cruise and director Doug Liman, 55.

NASA and Space Shuttle veteran Michael Lopez-Alegria will be the pilot on the trip and there is one, as yet unfilled, tourist place available in the new four-person Crew Dragon.

The 58-year-old movie star will be on board the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule on its scheduled October 2021 trip to the International Space Station

Actor Tom Cruise parachutes from Helsetkopen mountain during the 'Mission: Impossible' filming in Norway on September 6, 2020Credit: Reuters

He's known for doing the daring stunts in the Mission Impossible moviesCredit: Paramount/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock

The star performs risky action sequencesCredit: Chiabella James/Paramount Pictures and Skydance via AP

Earlier this year, it was announced by NASA that Cruise and Liman had teamed up with SpaceX founder Elon Musk and NASA to make a movie aboard the ISS.

Further details aren't known of Cruise's plans to shoot in space, although it's understood that Liman has written a draft screenplay for the project.

The groundbreaking public-private partnership between NASA and Elon Musk's SpaceX took a giant leap forward in May this year, when the Crew Dragon spacecraft aboard a Falcon 9 rocket was launched from Florida's Kennedy Space Center.

NASA astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken's journey marked the first crewed launch to the International Space Station from the United States since the final flight of NASA's Space Shuttle fleet in 2011.