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‘N Sync singer Lance Bass will not be the 3rd space tourist in October, since he’s been asked to leave Russia’s cosmonaut training program. Sergei Gorbunov, of the Russian Space Agency, says there have been “crude violations” of his contract. “It’s over,” he says. The U.S. rock star was granted several deadline extensions after failing to come up with the $20 million cost. Bass has already undergone extensive training at NASA?s Star City astronaut training center.
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Researchers are trying to figure out the ideal number of people needed to create a viable population for multi-generational space travel. They?ve decided it needs to be 160 people. But with some social engineering it might even be possible to reduce this to 80.

Anthropologist John Moore of the University of Florida wondered how future humans might successfully undertake century-long journeys out into space. Other scientists have concentrated on freezing people with cryogenics or taking along sperm banks, but Moore says, ?the ?right stuff? for a journey into space is the family?a million-year-old institution designed to assist reproduction.?
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Last Christmas Eve, Astronaut Cathy Clarke heard Mission Control playing Jingle Bells over the intercom about 200 times. They had turned down her request for a Christmas tree because ?the pine needles would just float around and poke you in the eye. It?s a safety issue.?
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