Singer, Sarah Brightman has cancelled her upcoming trip to the International Space Station and explained that the cancellation is because of family reason.
Her mission to the International Space Station started back in January with Russia's Star City. The singer would have been boarding the Russian Soyuz capsule for a 10-day stay on the station, BBC reported.
Brightman posted the reason for the cancellation on her Facebook page, explaining that because of "personal family reasons her intentions have had to change and she is postponing her cosmonaut training and flight plans at this time."
New York Daily News reported that the trip costs around $52 million, explained Space Adventures which is a privately owned U.S. travel agency that had been behind the logistics of the inter-galactic trip.
Brightman would have been the eight tourist to make the trip to the space station, which requires 15 nations working together. One tourist, Microsoft Corp co-founder Charles Simonyi, has been to the station twice already.
The International Space Station is a $100 billion research facility that flies about 260 miles above Earth.
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