The Proxima (2019) film was shot against real-life backdrops that centred on ESA’s European Astronaut Centre (EAC) in Cologne, Germany, Star City near Moscow and Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Here some of the 60-strong film crew are seen at EAC in February 2018. They used the neutral buoyancy pool, training hall, simulators and the Columbus laboratory trainer module as sets for shooting.