Sarah Brightman, star of "Phantom of the Opera," has decided to postpone her trip into the great vacuum of space. Brightman made the announcement on Wednesday that she is postponing her plans to fly as a tourist to the International Space Station in September with Russian cosmonaut Sergey Volkov and European astronaut Andreas Mogensen aboard a Soyuz spacecraft, according to NBC News. The 10-day trip would cost $52 million.
Brightman started training January 19 - which did not leave the space tourist much time for training. A potential eight months compared to the years of training experienced pilots go through is... well, not very comparable. Two people familiar with Brightman's training schedule told Time Magazine that the singer stopped her training on April 22.
Perhaps Time's Jeffrey Kluger summed it up best: "Space flight has never been a safe or easy or, most of the time, even terribly fun thing to do. The training is brutal, the rockets are dangerous, the spacecraft are cramped, the living conditions are spartan, and as for the one thing you think you'd enjoy the most-the weightlessness? Odds are you'd spend a fair bit of your time aloft doing little but throwing up-which you could jolly well do back home."
