Tom Cruise flashes muscular abs while hanging out at Hollywood landmark

Tom Cruise knows a thing or two about staying in shape.

Cruise, 61, showed off a glimpse of his toned abs while scaling the famous Hollywood sign on Saturday across a stretch of the Santa Monica Mountains in Los Angeles.

The "Mission Impossible" star hopped on top of the large white letters with a few film crew friends and lifted his black T-shirt for a quick snap.

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Representatives did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.

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It is not clear what Cruise was working on to get the shot, but he is known for performing his own death-defying stunts as one of Hollywood's most coveted actors. 

Paramount Pictures announced in October that the eighth installment of "Mission: Impossible" would be pushed back by one year.

The studio cited the SAG-AFTRA strike as one of the reasons for halting production and moved the release date from June 28, 2024 to May 23, 2025.

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It is not the first time Cruise has faced production problems on his films, especially with the action-packed "Mission: Impossible" franchise, where he stars and performs his own stunts as agent Ethan Hunt. 

Production came to a grinding halt on "Mission: Impossible – Fallout" in 2017 when Cruise broke his ankle while performing a stunt where he jumped between buildings. He got the shot and went back to filming despite not being fully healed.

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The following installment, "Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One," was shut down twice due to the pandemic. In addition, Cruise faced scrutiny for leaked audio where he chastised crew members for not adhering to social distancing rules.

Forbes reported that Cruise paid $700,000 for the cast and crew to live on cruise ships, essentially creating a safe environment for the team to work without risking a COVID-19 outbreak.

"Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One" earned $567.5 million worldwide and received some of the best reviews in the franchise's 27-year history.

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"Top Gun: Maverick" also faced multiple setbacks due to the pandemic, but it ultimately landed in the right gear as Cruise's highest-grossing film and the second-highest-grossing movie in 2022, with $1.4 billion worldwide.

The Oscar-nominated film also marked Cruise's personal best when it crossed the $800 million mark in June 2022.

NASA welcomes its newest class of astronauts after two-year training in Houston

The Johnson Space Center welcomed 12 new astronauts – 10 Americans and two from the United Arab Emirates – after the class completed a two-year training program through NASA.

These astronauts will be assigned missions to the International Space Station and future commercial space stations, and will also focus on missions to the moon in preparation for Mars.

Luke Delaney, a retired United States Marine Corps major from DeBary, Florida, said graduating from the program was a dream – for some, a dream that was decades in the making.

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When putting on his spacesuit, Delaney said he felt like he made it.

"The first time you put that on, and you’re getting in the water, it’s impressive. You just feel like you’ve made it in some ways," he shared.

The class, which was made up of scientists, doctors, engineers and researchers, was chosen two years ago from over 12,000 applicants.

After making the cut, they moved to Houston and have been training physically and mentally for their first spaceflight.

Jack Hathaway, a commander in the United States Navy from South Windsor, Connecticut, described the different types of training the astronauts underwent as part of the training program.

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"We learned about the space station systems. We learned to speak a little bit of Russian. We learned how to fly the T-38. We do spacesuit training in the neutral buoyancy lab. And, we learned how to operate the Canadian arm – the robotic arm that’s on the space station right now," Hathaway said. 

Hathway shared his excitement about all the opportunities available to astronauts, declaring there is "really not a bad job in the astronaut office."

"There’s so much in front of us right now. Whether it’s a Starliner flight or a Dragon flight, or getting to work on a development program or to work on current operations with what’s going on in the space station right now," Hathaway said.

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Though they won't immediately hop on a flight, the new astronauts are prepared for their time out of this world. 

"The science that we’re doing on the International Space Station, there’s nowhere else in the universe that we can do that science. We’re learning things about medicine and the human body. Space gives us a laboratory to work with that we don’t have here on the ground," said Chris Williams, a medical physicist from Boston.

The Johnson Space Center director said it will be at least one year until any of the newly graduated astronauts get their first flight assignment.

Applications are now open for the next round of astronauts.

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