"The issue is currently being discussed with the company selecting candidates, Space Adventures. At the end of all our negotiations we will announce the candidacy. This will be in June or July, August at the latest,” Komarov told reporters.
Famous British soprano Sarah Brightman was to fly to the ISS on September 1 and stay aboard the station for 10 days. But the US-based space tourism firm Space Adventures announced on May 13 that the singer had to postpone her lifetime dream for family reasons.
Japanese businessman Satoshi Takamatsu was rumored to be an official replacement for Brightman, but a source in the Russian space agency said earlier he was unlikely to make this trip since he still owed several dozen million dollars for the flight to the orbital outpost.
