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1980s musical singer Sarah Brightman is about to take a rather unlikely step for mankind, becoming the first professional artist to perform a gig in space.
Brightman has booked herself a ticket to the International Space Station thanks to giving the Russians and independent space travel agent Space Adventures a stack of money to take her up on a Soyuz launcher, which will dock with the ISS and allow Brightman to spend 10 days bothering the scientists with questions in orbit.
She’ll also be fussing about with things to do with charities and hoping to promote the advancement of women in science, thanks to her role as UNESCO Artist for Peace.
We suspect she’ll also be eating peas one at a time by getting a man to throw them at her mouth from across the room, but that’s still to be confirmed. Brightman will be going orbital in 2014. [Space Adventures]
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If she doesn’t do “I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper” it will have been a wasted journey http://youtu.be/B2Tkx6BgRFE
Sarah Brightman is going to the ISS, how can be be anything other than a wasted journey – unless we are talking about Sarah Brightman the astrophysicist.
Doesn’t say anything about her coming back.
Sounds about right!
If anyone else is game, I’m happy to chip in a few quid for her to go sooner…
Please tell me it is a one way trip, please.
Properly hilarious! Thanks
I thought it more apt if she sung the original Star Trek theme
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHhePr0TKfc
shameless self plug, but I wrote a tune with her sister, Amelia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWUWsS1J2TE
So theyre sending a singer up there to get some publicity. Sarah who?
Wow she’s got a 3 octave voice, lets see who cares. If you’re wasting cash, at least make it fun. It should have been BOWIE, and we all know what he would sing.
Alright, I’m slightly annoyed, they need to send someone up with at least a D cup or larger, with skin tight t shirts. For, you know, scientific purposes. Who’s with me?
That’s going to piss off the Phantom even more…