VARIOUS: N SYNC MEMBER LANCE BASS GOES INTO TRAINING TO BECOME THE NEXT RUSSIAN "SPACE TOURIST" TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION

Record ID: 392934

  • Title: VARIOUS: N SYNC MEMBER LANCE BASS GOES INTO TRAINING TO BECOME THE NEXT RUSSIAN "SPACE TOURIST" TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
  • Date: 21st July 2002
  • Summary: STAR CITY, RUSSIA (JULY 21, 2002) (REUTERS) VARIOUS, 'N SYNC MEMBER LANCE BASS WORKING OUT (3 SHOTS) SLV LANCE BASS WEARING SPECIAL HELMET ON TROLLEY BEING ROLLED INTO CENTRIFUGE (2 SHOTS) VARIOUS, DOOR BEING CLOSED (3 SHOTS) SCU BASS'S FACE SEEN THROUGH THE SCREEN WIDE OF DOCTORS /SPACE CENTRE STAFF SITTING AT MONITORING EQUIPMENT WIDE OF CENTRIFUGE SET INTO MOTION SCU B
  • Embargoed: 5th August 2002 13:00
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  • Location: STAR CITY, RUSSIA ,BAIKONUR,KAZAKHSTAN AND IN SPACE
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  • Country: Russian Federation Kazakhstan In Space
  • Topics: Entertainment
  • Reuters ID: LVA80PKDXUH8O5JRTZ6FF27NBMEN
  • Story Text: Lance Bass of the boy band 'N Sync is working to finalise his contract with Russian space agency to possibly catch an autumn flight to the International Space Station.
    Lance Bass has been undergoing training at the Star City Training Centre outside Moscow. He has been cleared by Russian space doctors for a space flight that is most likely due in the autumn.
    The singer, a native of Mississippi, United States has said it is his childhood dream to travel into space.
    If Bass signs the contract he would blast off for a week long mission to the station along with Russian Sergei Zaletin and European Space Agency astronaut Frank DeWinne of Belgium.
    Neither the space agency nor Bass have commented on financial details of his bid.
    Earlier in May the world's second space tourist , South African Mark Shuttleworth, blasted into space. Shuttleworth was the second amateur cosmonaut who paid his way into space after U.S. businessman Dennis Tito visited the International Space Station (ISS) a year ago.
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