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NAMES IN THE NEWS: BRITISH SOPRANO SARAH BRIGHTMAN MAY BE
THE NEXT SPACE TOURIST
A world famous entertainer may be the next to travel to the
International Space Station. Amateur Radio Newsline's
George Bowen, W2XBS, has the details:
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British soprano Sarah Brightman could become the next space
tourist to visit the International Space Station. This
according to a senior official at the Russian Space Agency
who hinted on August 22nd that the 52 year old songstress
best known for her creating the role of Christine Daae' in
the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical The Phantom of the Opera is
being considered as candidate for such a trip.
The Interfax news agency cited a space industry source as
saying that the name of the next space tourist, who will
most likely fly to the ISS in 2015, will be officially
announced in around a month. The source also told Interfax
that Brightman visited Russia around a month ago and was
given the go-ahead by the medical commission to train at the
Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre in Star City outside
Moscow.
Previous space tourists visiting the ISS have included the
Canadian founder of the Cirque du Soleil, Guy Laliberte, and
computer game creator Richard Garriott, W5KWQ. As most of
you know, Richard Garriott is the son of retired Astronaut
Owen Garriott, W5LFL, who was the first radio amateur to
ever operate from space. This on shuttle mission STS-9.
Iranian-American entrepreneur Anousheh Ansari is so far the
only woman to make the trip to the I-S-S.
For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm George Bowen, W2XBS, in
Albany, New York.
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More about Sarah Brightman's proposed trip to Earth orbit is
on-line at tinyurl.com/brightman-iss. (Interfax, AFP)
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