Brightman promised to sing aboard the ISS, accompanied by an earthling orchestra
British singer and future space tourist Sarah Brightman is going to sing aboard the International Space Station (ISS) to the accompaniment of an orchestra from the Earth, reports TASS with reference to the press service of Roscosmos.
On January 19, at the Brightman Cosmonaut Training Center and its understudy Satoshi Takamatsu met with the experts who will train the flight participants. The singer, as told in Roskosmos, noted that she is very happy to start preparing for the flight, appreciates such a unique opportunity and will do everything in her power so that she and everyone who will monitor this flight will remember to stay on the ISS.
Brightman and Takamatsu are waiting for the standard training program for the flight to the ISS as space tourists. For six months they will be introduced to the systems of the Soyuz TMA-M spacecraft and the Russian segment of the ISS. They will also have to undergo biomedical and scientific training, learn Russian.
The Brightman flight is scheduled for September 2015 and lasts ten days. In addition to her, the crew of the Soyuz TMA-M spacecraft includes Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov and astronaut of the European Space Agency Andreas Mogenzen.
Brightman will pay for the flight 52 million dollars. She will be the eighth space tourist.
The first of the nonprofessionals in space was an American entrepreneur Dennis Tito in 2001 year. The fifth tourist, American Charles Simonyi, was so impressed with the journey that he had already visited near-earth orbit twice: in 2007 and in 2009. The next, ninth candidate for space adventure was the founder of the Internet company Google, Google.
Source: Lenta.ru.
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