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As original contract indicated Lance Bass was to go to space with two monkeys. His job would be to feed monkeys and NOT TOUCH anything on space station. During the cource of training russian space program officials came to conclusion that monkeys will starve to death and Lance will push some buttons-just to find out what's gonna happen. 3 months of extensive training achieved nothing. And yes, he cannot cough up 20 million too-thanks to Napster and my pirated copy of "Bye bye bye".
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"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. "
Ill-prepared.....
Alex

 

I read that too. He didn't deserve to go anyway.

 

Poor Monkeys...

Never did like this Bass character...

The real reason is that the monkeys would take control and pee all over the console....





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holy smokes, 20 million... he's definitely dug himself a hole with that one!

 

Hmmm, it seems like it was actually THREE monkeys..
two of them trained cosmonauts, the other was just
a skewered fish posing as a boy band idol