Cancelled: British singer Sarah Brightman to be Russia’s next space tourist

[yg1968]

British singer Sarah Brightman to be Russia’s next space tourist (officially announced today):
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/10/entertainment-us-russia-space-tourist-idUSBRE89910S20121010

http://www.spaceadventures.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=news.viewnews&newsid=868

[Rocket Science]

Awesome, another reason to love her!  However; the video calls her Dreamchaser, perhaps she has the wrong ride.

[neilh]

Can it be assumed that the price Brightman is paying is greater than the >$50M NASA pays?

[yg1968]

That was the rumored price tag in prior articles. Guy Laliberté paid $40M in 2009 (acording to SFN). So $50+M is not outside the range of possibilities.

Her net worth is about $50M, so she is spending a lot of her net worth in order to get there.

[Danderman]

Regardless of whether Ms. Brightman actually flies, this seems to be another data point that there is a market for private spaceflight.

[A_M_Swallow]

Awesome, another reason to love her!  However; the video calls her Dreamchaser, perhaps she has the wrong ride.

She is calling her new album Dream Chaser.  Sierra Nevada may wish to get a picture of their Dream Chaser space craft onto the album cover or at least onto the stage during her tour next year.

[SpacexULA]

I hope she records audio while on the ISS.  Seeing somone in a music video really floating in freefall would be a treat.

[ChrisC]

See also the following threads for discussion of the Brightman story:

Flight crew assignments:
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=740.2085

Year long expeditions to ISS:
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=18052.15

(keeping an astronaut up for a whole year opens up a Soyuz seat in the middle of that year)

[alexterrell]

Seeing a pop (soft pop/hard classic) video filmed in space, with a new song and lyrics designed for the occassion, could sell pretty well on Earth. I don't think Ms Brightman has much in the way of new stuff recently - if it ties in with her Dreamchaser album I'll buy a copy (or download).

She's got a great voice - good enough to reach from Space to Earth.

[SpacexULA]

She's got a great voice - good enough to reach from Space to Earth.

She is flent in English, Spanish, French, Latin, German, Italian, Russian, Mandarin Chinese and Japanese.  It would be amazing if she sang a song that incorporated all the languages of the ISS+Chinese.

Maybe while doing a lap/tour inside the ISS like Mike Fincke did , ending with her floating framed in front of the copala.

[Rocket Science]

Awesome, another reason to love her!  However; the video calls her Dreamchaser, perhaps she has the wrong ride.

She is calling her new album Dream Chaser.  Sierra Nevada may wish to get a picture of their Dream Chaser space craft onto the album cover or at least onto the stage during her tour next year.

Perhaps they can come to a barter agreement…

[Dappa]

Here's the presser with the actual announcement:

[sdsds]

You know how the Metropolitan Opera does live, high-definition performance transmissions to movie theaters around the world?

(http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/liveinhd/LiveinHD.aspx?sn=watch)

If you could go to a local movie theater, and see and hear Brightman perform from space, would you buy a ticket?

[woods170]

Regardless of whether Ms. Brightman actually flies, this seems to be another data point that there is a market for private spaceflight.

Maybe there is a niche market for flying super-rich people to already existing space stations, but personally, I very much doubt that such a market is large enough to sustain development of 'destinations-in-space' purely for private spaceflight.

[Star One]

Regardless of whether Ms. Brightman actually flies, this seems to be another data point that there is a market for private spaceflight.

Maybe there is a niche market for flying super-rich people to already existing space stations, but personally, I very much doubt that such a market is large enough to sustain development of 'destinations-in-space' purely for private spaceflight.

But that's the whole basis of Excalibur Almaz Inc's business model it seems to me?

[A_M_Swallow]

Regardless of whether Ms. Brightman actually flies, this seems to be another data point that there is a market for private spaceflight.

Maybe there is a niche market for flying super-rich people to already existing space stations, but personally, I very much doubt that such a market is large enough to sustain development of 'destinations-in-space' purely for private spaceflight.

But that's the whole basis of Excalibur Almaz Inc's business model it seems to me?

Possibly why Excalibur Almaz are talking about more expensive trips to lunar orbit.

[Star One]

Regardless of whether Ms. Brightman actually flies, this seems to be another data point that there is a market for private spaceflight.

Maybe there is a niche market for flying super-rich people to already existing space stations, but personally, I very much doubt that such a market is large enough to sustain development of 'destinations-in-space' purely for private spaceflight.

But that's the whole basis of Excalibur Almaz Inc's business model it seems to me?

Possibly why Excalibur Almaz are talking about more expensive trips to lunar orbit.

I still have to wonder if it's really that viable a business plan?

[QuantumG]

I still have to wonder if it's really that viable a business plan?

There's only one way to find out... now can we get back on topic?



The ISS will never be the same.

[aquarius]

In an interview with RIA Novosti, Brightman said that while in space, she hopes to sing, accompanied by a choir and an orchestra on the ground.

[missinglink]

In an interview with RIA Novosti, Brightman said that while in space, she hopes to sing, accompanied by a choir and an orchestra on the ground.

A charming idea, however, due to the round-trip signal delay, it will be more like a karaoke performance, albeit with the karaoke band playing live