Sarah fly in space did not want fly Filaret – News Agency “Khakassia-Inform”

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May 20, 2015 at 14:17

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Instead, Sarah Brightman, who refused to fly to the ISS,” for family reasons “, the space station might leave 51-year-old Russian billionaire Filaret Galchev, co-owner of holding” Eurocement group ».

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Earlier, a number of media reported that the English singer Sarah Braytaman decided to abandon the mission. Now there is information that it will be replaced by Filaret Galchev. It is reported that Galchev expressed interest in flight as soon as it became aware of the failure Brightman.

big businessman will have to pay about $ 50 million. Galchev already passes tests in a medical institution of Sciences, which specializes in space medicine. If the test results allow, Galchev sign an agreement with the company Space Adventures, which organizes and most expensive in the world entertainment.

At the same time, the Russian Space Agency spokesman Igor Bourenkov said that, in fact, there is a Russian a businessman who wants to fly into space, but did not mention his name.

Filaret Galchev for last year took 23th place in the ranking of 200 richest businessmen of Russia according to the magazine Forbes. His fortune is estimated at $ 4.4 billion. Through Eurocement Holding AG Galchev controls 98% of shares of “Eurocement Group” – is the largest company for the production of cement in Russia, uniting 16 factories (revenue in 2013 – 55 billion rubles).

Roskosmos plans starting in 2018 come to grips with space tourism and thus compensate for the loss of the contract with NASA for the delivery of astronauts to the International Space Station.