Yulia Sergeevna Peresild is a Russian stage actress, singer and cosmonaut.

The Challenge is a 2023 Russian space drama film co-written and directed by Klim Shipenko. It is the first professionally made fictional film that has scenes in which professional actors appear shot in space (for example, the 1984 film Return from Orbit was also a professionally made fictional film in which some scenes were filmed in space, but in Return from Orbit, the scenes in spaces did not include professional actors but cosmonauts instead; and non-fictional document films have been filmed in space before, like For All Mankind or A Beautiful Planet. These took place aboard the International Space Station. The film stars Yulia Peresild as a surgeon sent to space to help an injured cosmonaut. The film's cast also includes Miloš Biković and Vladimir Mashkov. The film crew was accompanied by cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov, Oleg Novitsky, and Pyotr Dubrov, and NASA astronaut Mark T. Vande Hei.