{"id":1109169,"date":"2023-02-20T13:21:30","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T18:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1109169"},"modified":"2023-02-20T13:21:30","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T18:21:30","slug":"lance-bass-was-kicked-off-a-russian-spaceflight-two-decades-ago-now-hes-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1109169","title":{"rendered":"Lance Bass was kicked off a Russian spaceflight two decades ago\u2014now he\u2019s back"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Enlarge<\/a> \/<\/span> Lance Bass attends the 2022 iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas. (credit: Gabe Ginsberg\/Getty Images for iHeartRadio)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

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At the height of his fame as a member of the internationally famous boy band NSYNC, Lance Bass came within about two weeks of going to space in 2002.<\/p>\n

Bass had completed four months of rigorous training in Russia’s Star City during the spring and summer of that year, learning Russian and passing several challenging pre-launch tests. The plan was to fly up to the International Space Station on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft alongside two cosmonauts and spend about 10 days in orbit.<\/p>\n

This was not a well-trodden path, especially for a 23-year-old musician who would have been by far the youngest person to fly into space. By mid-2002, only two wealthy businessmen, Dennis Tito and Mark Shuttleworth, had ever taken privately paid trips to space.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\nSource: Ars Technica – Lance Bass was kicked off a Russian spaceflight two decades ago\u2014now he\u2019s back<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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