At a press conference in London, the famous British vocalist and future space tourist Sarah Brightman told journalists that she is going to perform a new piece on the ISS, which she is currently working on with the famous composer and her ex-husband Andrew Lloyd Webber.
"I want to sing a duet with an artist who is on earth. We are trying to work on it, we are currently working on music with Lloyd Webber," the singer admitted.
The flight is scheduled to take place on September 1, 2015. Sarah Brightman is in her second month of training at the Russian Cosmonaut Training Center. Classes last 16 hours a day. The course is very intensive: in the remaining time, the singer must become a full-fledged member of the spaceship crew.
The training program includes Russian language training, basic technical skills, and a course on survival in extreme conditions. Despite the huge number of flights completed, traveling into space and returning to Earth is still associated with at great risk.
The singer will go into orbit as part of an international crew of three, led by cosmonaut Sergei Volkov. During 10 days in space, they will fly around the Earth 16 times. And while her colleagues will conduct scientific experiments, Sarah will do what she can do.
Brighton, who has sold an estimated 30 million records during her career, said she was paying for the flight out of her own pocket, but admitted her contract prohibits her from disclosing the cost of the trip. space trip Sarah Brightman is worth £35 million.
