I remember following his training as much as I could when I was a kid. Instead of JT I was obsessed with Lance and, as a massive Sailor Moon fan, was obsessed with space too. The type of access to training he had, as a civilian, was essentially impossible in the US after the Challenger disaster. IIRC he did an accelerated training program in a matter of months that would’ve normally been like 2 years long.

He looks good for someone who floated alone in space for 20 years.

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Kicked off because would could not pay the price to board the rocket.

Lori Garver was in the middle of space training to take the mission in the early 2000s but the Russians were trying to raise as much money as they could to fund the flight. Bass and Garver both completed training in Russia and were medically cleared to go.

I hate this headline more than anything I've seen today.

I just finished the first episode of the podcast - it's really cool! Definitely looking forward to the rest of it.

Lance Bass and Russian Spaceflight were not two things I expected to read in the same sentence today.

“In the year 2000 Lance Bass will come back from Russia saying it was all a joke! ….he was never a dancer or a singer.”

wasn't it because his investors backed out and he couldn't afford it? Not so much kicked out but ran into money troubles.

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With the current climate and knowing the Russian culture around people like Lance, I would run the other way if I were him.

He wasn’t kicked off, he just couldn’t afford it

"There were a lot of problems with Russia and Hollywood in trying to make this happen," Bass said during a recent interview with Ars. "There were even a couple of weekends that I would get kicked off the base in Russia. They would put a gun to my head and be like, 'Where's the money? Where's the money?'"

in the article