My poor boy
Awwww! My mom greeted me this morning with "Your boy isn't going. : (" What's sad is that I knew exactly what she meant when she referred to my boy, and where he wasn't going.
Lance has been asked to leave Star City, and a cargo package will be sent in his place. That's, like, adding insult to injury. So very sad!! Stupid money issues.
She said that all the news stations covered it in their news section,but I of course can't find it anywhere. In fact, it took me a few minutes to even find CNN (I got distracted by finding Joe Scruggs first <.g>). I did find articles, though. One is below in the more section.
Mom was cracking up, because I was so mad on his behalf. I said he'd been working hard, was pale and thinner and was non-sparkly! She was like, "Non-sparkly?" <.g> But yes! Non-sparkly. <.g>
Oh, geez, CNN said there was something....an earthquake?...near Loma Linda, CA. Are the Beesons okay? Drop me a note sometime today and let me know, Lady K. Won't read it until after 10 freaking pm, but I'll want to come back to it. : )
And now off to get dressed! How on earth did I get up at the same time as yesterday, when I have to leave half an hour earlier, and be running...oh, shoot, I'm leaving half an hour earlier. That explains things. Crap. LOL
'N Sync star's space trek scrapped
September 3, 2002 Posted: 6:41 AM EDT (1041 GMT)
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MOSCOW, Russia (Reuters) -- Russia's space agency has scrapped 'N Sync singer Lance Bass's plans to
join an October space mission after the U.S. pop star failed to meet payment deadlines, an agency
spokesman said.
Bass, 23, who would have become the youngest ever person in space, has been told to leave Russia's
Star City cosmonaut training centre outside Moscow, where he had been preparing to join a mission
to the International Space Station (ISS).
"After failing to fulfil the conditions of his contract, Lance Bass has been told that his training
at the Cosmonaut Training Centre has ended and that his flight to the ISS is impossible," spokesman
Sergei Gorbunov told Reuters.
"We are preparing to send a cargo container to the ISS instead of a third crew member."
He added: "Bass is now at Star City, gathering his stuff and preparing to leave."
Bass, backed by a consortium of companies rounded up by a Hollywood producer, had already missed
initial deadlines to come up with a reported $20 million.
U.S. space authorities had also expressed worries that the star was ill-prepared for the flight,
though cash-strapped Russia said it needed the fee to service its fleet of Soyuz craft.
He would have been the third space enthusiast to pay his way into space after U.S. millionaire
Dennis Tito and South African entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth.
The October Soyuz taxi mission will now go ahead with Russian commander Sergei Zalyotin and Belgian
flight engineer Frank DeWinne.
Comments
Oh NO!! POor Lance!!! You need to rush right out to comfort him, and he of course will comfort you!!
That's horrible!!
Posted by: Karey | September 3, 2002 08:04 AM
Poor Lance - I saw that this morning and was gonna come and tell you. I laugh so much that they are sending a cargo package instead of him - that is pretty dorky!
Oh, and like I just posted, the earthquake was near Yorba Linda instead of Loma Linda, which is about an hour away, so E said that it wasn't too big of a deal. They may have felt it, but shouldn't have been too huge there. But we'll call to check in with them - thanks dear, I didn't have time to read the news today with being so freakin busy today! Maybe not as busy as you, but definitely more than my energy envelope!!!
Posted by: kristine | September 3, 2002 07:58 PM
you are too much, rina.
Posted by: meegan | September 3, 2002 08:45 PM
Why yes, Meegan, yes I am. LOL!
And yes, Karey, that's exactly what needs to happen! And hey, Chris is sad, we can comfort him, too. LOL I have enough comfort for both of them. ; )
And I'm so glad it wasn't that near them, Lady K. And, dude, yes. I mean, send another person, it smarts. Send cargo and it's humiliating. Poor boy! After all this time. Quite sucky.
Posted by: Rina | September 3, 2002 11:35 PM