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THAT FINAL ITEM: BRITISH SOPRANO SARAH BRIGHTMAN TO BE THE
NEXT VISITOR TO THE ISS
The British songstress who created the role of Christine
Daae (pron "Die Aye") in Sir Andrew Lloyd Webbers musical
stage classic The Phantom of the Opera will be the next
space tourist to visit the International Space Station.
Amateur Radio Newsline's Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF, has the
details:
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On Wednesday, October 10th it was announced in Moscow that
world famous soprano Sarah Brightman had passed the required
mental and physical examinations to permit her fly to the
ISS. And in a video of the press conference made public by
the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos, and the singer herself,
Brightman described how as a child she was inspired by the
Apollo 11 landing on the moon.
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Brightman: "When I look back, my minds eye brings me to a
rush of images from all of the incredible things that I have
been privileged to experience in my life. But if I keep
tracking back, my thoughts eventually come to rest on a
flickering TV screen in 1969. There as a small and
incredulous child I watched a man bound gently from the
steps of a rocket ship and land on the surface of the moon.
"This really was an adventure. It was something miraculous.
"For me it was an epiphany. From that moment I began
looking into the future. I began to dream about what life
might hold in store for me and of what I could accomplish."
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During her comments, Brightman said the trip would serve as
a way to promote environmental awareness and to encourage
women's education by helping to close the gender gap in the
sciences. For this she has called on the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, better
known as UNESCO, to join with her to make it happen:
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Brightman: "There are two key areas that we have identified
which unify my personal passions, UNESCO's objectives and my
spaceflight. Both are inexplicably linked and both relate
to issues of sustainability."
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After completing an upcoming world tour to promote her new
album appropriately called Dream Chaser, Brightman will
undertake six months of training at Star City in Moscow in
preparation for her mission to the International Space
Station. Once on-orbit she is expected to take part in
several educational ventures as just mentioned but it is not
yet known if she will obtain an amateur radio license or has
any plans to make any ham radio contacts from the ISS.
For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF,
in the Newsroom in Los Angeles.
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This is not Sarah Brightman's first venture into the area of
science education. Earlier this year in conjunction with
Virgin Galactic she launched the Brightman STEM Scholarship
program. STEM is an acronym for the words science,
technology, engineering, and mathematics. Her program is
designed to help young women in the United States to pursue
STEM education across their four year college careers.
(Roscosmos, Southgate, others)
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