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Follow the link to learn moreA new space tourist may go to the International Space Station (ISS in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft in 2015), a source in the rocket ad space industry told Interfax-AVN on Wednesday.
"The name of the next space tourist who will most likely fly to the ISS in 2015 will be announced in about a month," the source said.
British singer Sarah Brightman may be the next space tourist, the source said.
The singer visited Russia about a month ago and received the approval of a medical commission to begin training in the Cosmonaut Training Center, the source said. Interfax currently has no comments on the resumption of space tourists' flights from Roscosmos and Space Adventures.
