Singer Sarah Brightman refused flight to the ISS – BBC Russian

• 14 May 2015

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In orbit 54-year-old Brightman wanted to sing a song to the music of Andrew Lloyd Webber

British singer Sarah Brightman, who brought glory to participate in the musical “Phantom of the Opera”, postponed scheduled for September 1, 2015 flight to the International Space station as a space tourist .

In a statement 54 year-old singer explained the decision for family reasons, because of which had to be postponed Brightman trained to fly.

The famous singer began training to fly into space in Star City in January.

Brightman had to spend 10 days in space. In orbit, at an altitude of 420 kilometers of the singer wanted to sing a song co-written with her ex-husband, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber.

According to the American company Space Adventures, has been organizing her trip, the flight could do about it 52 million dollars.

“Brightman said that for family reasons, her plans changed and she had to postpone the training as an astronaut and space flight at a later time,” – said the singer on the page in the “Facebook”.

Sarah Brightman expressed gratitude to Roskosmos, RKK “Energia” Star City (where she held a workout), NASA astronauts and supports it “for a delightful period of her life”.

The accident “Progress”

The singer had become the eighth tourists on board the International Space Station. Its location, is expected to take an understudy – a Japanese businessman Satoshi Takamatsu.

Flight Brightman be held in September. However, because of an accident of space truck “Progress” Roscosmos decided to postpone sending the next mission from 26 May to the end of July, which is likely to be shifted the date of travel to the ISS singer at a later date.

The first space tourist was the American Dennis Tito. He went to the ISS in 2001, paying $ 20 million.

After his orbit visited six space tourists.

In 2006, traveled to the ISS’s first female tourist, an American of Iranian origin Anoushe Ansari.

The American billionaire Charles Simonyi traveled to space twice: in 2007 and 2009.

The last space tourist at the moment is the founder and director of the Canadian company Cirque du Soleil Guy Laliberte, flew in October 2009.