Moscow, May 18. At the end of May will know the name of a candidate for a space flight on” Soyuz TMA 18M “, which will go to the ISS instead of British singer Sarah Brightman. This was reported by a source in the space industry.
Brightman had to fly into space in the autumn of 2015 for ten days. Together with her plan to go to the ISS Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov and European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogenzen. Recently, however, the singer refused to fly into space and said it would return spent on the preparation of $ 52 million.
«Another inter-ministerial commission will meet in late May. It will adopt the third member of the crew of the September launch, as well as approve the crews in March and May 2017, “- a source told Tass.
Previously also reported that the singer will fly instead of the owner of the company” Eurocement Group “Filaret Galchev, which I became interested in flight and is ready to allocate to this journey of 50 million dollars. Galchev already passed the necessary medical tests.
Russian Space Agency spokesman Igor Bourenkov previously confirmed that Galchev asked the Federal Space Agency, but the specific terms were not specified.
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