Published: April 17, 2013
British singer Sarah Brightman hopes to become the first professional artist to record a single in space.
Brightman, who rose to fame starring in the original London and New York casts of "The Phantom of the Opera", plans to be the next paying passenger to ride a Russian rocket to the International Space Station in 2015.
Russia has sent seven private passengers to the International Space Station, each of them reportedly paying at least $20 million. American investment manager Dennis Tito was the first to make the journey in 2001.