MOSCOW, May 14 – RIA Novosti. The refusal of the British singer Sarah Brightman from the flight to the ISS space tourist like a “great PR-campaign”, according to experts interviewed by RIA Novosti.
eve Brightman announced that it will not be able to make a scheduled flight to the International Space Station due to family circumstances. Brightman flight to the ISS was planned for September 2015, it was assumed that it will last 10 days. She had become the eighth space tourist to visit the ISS.
understudy singer was previously defined a Japanese businessman and “a big fan of Space” Satoshi Takamatsu, who now continues training in Star City, Russia.
No more than PR?
According to the academician of the Russian Academy of Cosmonautics. Tsiolkovsky, the chief editor of “Space News” Igor Marinin, the whole story of the flight and the denial of Sarah Brightman from him – a PR-action.
“I personally do not know it, but when Sarah Brightman was assigned to the crew, I looked for her publication. I have the impression that it is quite an emotional woman who wanted to make money and good PR does not regret the money, but with the full security – did not want to risk any of hair “- said Marinin RIA Novosti.
He said that the Russian rocket” Soyuz “and the manned transportation spacecraft – the most reliable in the world, what certainly informed the singer. But what happened on April 28 an emergency situation with the separation of the third stage of the carrier rocket “Soyuz-2.1a” space truck “Progress-M27M” brought the singer “panic”, and she decided not to spend more money and get out of the program, the expert believes.
According to him, “family circumstances” – is just a cover, because the West is not accepted to ask a person about personal problems and thus Brightman protect themselves from further clarification.
Not for the first time waiver
Record for the total duration of the work on the ISS, deputy director TsNIIMASH Sergei Krikalev, prior to 2014 headed the Cosmonaut Training Center Gagarin, said the cause of failure of the flight Brightman “incomprehensible”.
In an interview with RIA Novosti, he said that “temporarily” abandon and then change your mind impossible. This is no problem in this, in his opinion, no.
“Unfortunately, we have intermittent problems with tourists there. It seems to be related with the scheme, how they negotiate the Federal Space Agency and Space Adventures (space tourism operator). The question is why, when agreed, says one thing and another comes. It comes from the professional space plane “- said Krikalev.
He also noted that the recent failures go not only from tourists (which may be associated with the business), but “unfortunately, from professional astronauts”.
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