MOSCOW, January 19. /TASS/. British famed soprano singer Sarah Brightman has come back to Moscow and has begun preparations for her journey to the International Space Station (ISS), Yury Lonchakov, the head of Russia’s Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, said on Monday.“Brightman has returned to Moscow and has started preparations for the space flight,” Lonchakov said. “The preparations are in line with the schedule" he told TASS.
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The first pics of Sarah Brightman and back-up Takamatsu in training !(source: their respective Twitter pages).
ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen will leave for the International Space Station from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 2 September with commander Sergei Volkov and Kazakh cosmonaut Aidyn Aimbetov. Their flight in the Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft will take two days, arriving at the Space Station on Friday morning.From 2013 onwards Soyuz spacecraft typically reached the International Space Station in around six hours. The longer flight for Andreas is due to the Space Station’s higher than usual orbit. The weightless research laboratory’s orbit was recently raised in a standard space-debris avoidance manoeuvre.