--- title: Sarah Brightman Has Started Training to Go to Space description: Her vacation will cost $52 million canonical: https://time.com/3671373/sarah-brightman-space-training/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-01-16T13:30:47.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T03:38:32.221Z article:section: Science og:title: Sarah Brightman Has Started Training to Go to Space og:description: Her vacation will cost $52 million og:url: https://time.com/3671373/sarah-brightman-space-training/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7f9792a61f5ae102/69877a59cd1bba11456f4af3/sarah-brightman.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Sarah Brightman og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Sarah Brightman Has Started Training to Go to Space twitter:description: Her vacation will cost $52 million twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7f9792a61f5ae102/69877a59cd1bba11456f4af3/sarah-brightman.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # _Phantom of the Opera_ Soprano Sarah Brightman Has Started Space Training by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Jan 16, 2015 1:30 PM UTC  Sarah Brightman at her concert "Dream Haser" on 14th December, 2014 in Taipei, Taiwan, China. Sarah Brightman at her concert "Dream Haser" on 14th December, 2014 in Taipei, Taiwan, China.TPG—Getty Images by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Jan 16, 2015 1:30 PM UTC Now we know why those Broadway lights just weren’t bright enough for Sarah Brightman — she wants to see the stars, up close and personal. The _Phantom of the Opera_ soprano [started training](http://news.sky.com/story/1408856/brightmans-countdown-to-space-station-trip) in Russia this week to make a 10-day trip to the International Space Station. Her stellar vacation cost her a cool $52 million. Brightman will be the eighth tourist to travel to the ISS, and the first since NASA retired its shuttles in 2011, leaving Russia’s Soyuz as the sole transporter. If Brightman, who delayed her training due to a cold, is unable to make the trip at the end of her nine-month training period, Japanese entrepreneur Satoshi Takamatsu will take her place. \[[_Sky News_](http://news.sky.com/story/1408856/brightmans-countdown-to-space-station-trip)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3671373/sarah-brightman-space-training/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3671373/sarah-brightman-space-training/"},"headline":"Phantom of the Opera Soprano Sarah Brightman Has Started Space Training","datePublished":"2015-01-16T13:30:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T03:38:32.221Z","description":"Her vacation will cost $52 million","url":"https://time.com/3671373/sarah-brightman-space-training/","keywords":["Space","russia","celebrities","Soyuz","iss"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7f9792a61f5ae102/69877a59cd1bba11456f4af3/sarah-brightman.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7f9792a61f5ae102/69877a59cd1bba11456f4af3/sarah-brightman.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Sarah Brightman","caption":"Sarah Brightman","creditText":"TPG—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/space/","name":"Space"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3671373/sarah-brightman-space-training/","name":"Phantom of the Opera Soprano Sarah Brightman Has Started Space Training"}}]}] ```