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Roscosmos has chosen a replacement for Sarah Brightman
Roscosmos has decided on the composition of the crew that will fly to the ISS on September 2. Instead of singer Sarah Brightman, who refused to fly, Kazakh cosmonaut Aidyn Aimbetov will go to the ISS. He will be the second flight engineer.
Sergei Volkov was appointed as the crew commander. Dane Andreas Mogensen will be the first flight engineer.
At present, the crews are completing the training course for the flight to the ISS.
- On May 14, 2015, Sarah Brightman refused to fly into space for family reasons. Her understudy was the Japanese businessman Satoshi Takamatsu, but in the end he did not even get into the backup crew.