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Singer Sarah Brightman Outbids NASA for Space Tourist's Seat ($51 Million Dollars)
ABC News ^ | By GINA SUNSERI

Posted on 10/04/2012 3:03:49 PM PDT by drewh

What's a rich space tourist to do? If you want to fly in space, seats are harder to find than a flight out of Chicago's O'Hare airport during a blizzard. So your only option is to bump an astronaut from a seat on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft going to the International Space Station.

ABC News has learned that singer Sarah Brightman, of "Phantom of the Opera" fame, will be the next tourist in space, sometime in 2014 or 2015. To get her seat she had to pay the Russian space agency more than the $51 million NASA budgets on average to send its astronauts to the station.

To maintain its presence in orbit when Soyuz seats are limited, NASA had to agree to commit at least one of its astronauts to spend a year in space, instead of the six months they currently stay. Brightman's trip will be announced in Moscow on Oct. 10.

NASA says a year in space has great medical research benefits. Astronauts spending just six months on the space station in the past have suffered from radiation exposure, muscle mass loss, decreased bone density, and vision problems. The research from a year on the space station will help NASA plan for long flights to Mars or an asteroid. It does mean an astronaut will get booted from a flight to adjust for one less seat

For a singer like Sarah Brightman, who thrilled the world when she starred in "Phantom of the Opera," the inspiration should be out of this world.

Rumors flew earlier this week when author J.K. Rowling told an audience in England she had once been offered a seat on a space shuttle for a couple of million dollars. NASA quickly scotched that story.

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1 posted on 10/04/2012 3:03:56 PM PDT by drewh
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To: drewh

Obama and the DNC destroyed NASA.

NASA’s only role, under the UNDOCUMENTED MOSLEM TYRANT,
is to help Islam prepare for Jihad in space.


2 posted on 10/04/2012 3:06:48 PM PDT by Diogenesis (Vi veri veniversum vivus vici)
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To: drewh

I’m glad to see a beautiful stage and opera singer and class-act like Sarah Brighton has as much dough to splash around as a tart like Madonna (sorry I had to mention her in the same sentence)

Have fun Sarah!


3 posted on 10/04/2012 3:09:32 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: drewh
Can't blame the Russians, but can blame Obama. We get outbid by a singer and I'll bet that Obama gave a little smile.
4 posted on 10/04/2012 3:12:00 PM PDT by Truth29
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To: drewh

Idiot.
Some will do anything for publicity


5 posted on 10/04/2012 3:12:23 PM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: PGR88

Agree


6 posted on 10/04/2012 3:18:12 PM PDT by dalebert
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To: drewh

Brightman turns out to be one dumb bitch.


7 posted on 10/04/2012 3:19:18 PM PDT by hflynn
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To: Diogenesis
NASA’s only role, under the UNDOCUMENTED MOSLEM TYRANT, is to help Islam prepare for Jihad in space.

Nonsense.

That's not its role at all, let alone its only one. If you want to know what NASA does, you look at its budget, not listen to some stupid thing that Bolden told an Arab television network.

8 posted on 10/04/2012 3:19:53 PM PDT by NonZeroSum
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To: drewh

What a voice ! Love to listen to her.
Sarah and Andrea Bocelli, Con te partirò (Time to Say Goodbye)

They don’t breathe helium up there do they? :^)


9 posted on 10/04/2012 3:20:32 PM PDT by Vinnie (A)
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To: Truth29
Won't SpaceX Falcon be man-rated by 2015? When it's man-rated, I expect the price to drop a lot.

Ruski will have competition, then.

/johnny

10 posted on 10/04/2012 3:21:19 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: patriot08
I disagree with you, in the world of serious, talented singers, she doesn't need any more publicity, as one could not already be nay more well-known than Sarah Brightman. I really admire that she is spending this money for a life's dream.
11 posted on 10/04/2012 3:21:33 PM PDT by Aussiebabe
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To: drewh
Singer Sarah Brightman Outbids NASA for Space Tourist's Seat ($51 Million Dollars)

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12 posted on 10/04/2012 3:21:55 PM PDT by newheart (The greatest trick the left ever pulled was convincing the world it was not a religion.)
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To: hflynn

I think she’s spending some of her ex’s (Andrew Lloyd Webber’s) money.


13 posted on 10/04/2012 3:22:44 PM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: Diogenesis

Obama killed the Space Shuttle and now we are at mercy of the Soviets.


14 posted on 10/04/2012 3:23:01 PM PDT by Uncle Slayton
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To: drewh

“We can’t even launch a man into space and have to hitch rides from the Russians” would have been a great point for Romney to have bashed Zero with last night.


15 posted on 10/04/2012 3:24:36 PM PDT by Rebelbase (The most transparent administration ever is clear as mud.)
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To: Vinnie; PGR88

Time to say Goodbye (Millenium Concert) Sarah Brightman e Placido Domingo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Exzy_Tkc9g


16 posted on 10/04/2012 3:26:29 PM PDT by drewh
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To: drewh

The shuttle could operate with a crew of two (Mission Commander and Pilot), taking FIVE passengers up to the ISS at a time. It also, on at least one occasion, flew back with eight people (MC, Pilot and six others) on board.

Now NASA begs, bids and bargains for a single seat on a Russian capsule.


17 posted on 10/04/2012 3:41:52 PM PDT by tanknetter
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To: Aussiebabe

Think of the good she could do with that money right here in the U.S.
Cancer research, animals...

Like Bill Gates sending all that money to foreign countries.
Charity begins at home...and do we need it now!


18 posted on 10/04/2012 3:51:28 PM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: tanknetter

A concert IN the stars...

cool.


19 posted on 10/04/2012 3:52:06 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: drewh

IMO one of the most average of voices.


20 posted on 10/04/2012 3:58:24 PM PDT by Cyman
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