Soprano Sarah Brightman Puts Off Her Space Flight

Space Adventures said in a statement Wednesday that the 54-year-old singer announced that “for personal family reasons her intentions have had to change and she is postponing her cosmonaut training and flight plans at this time.”

Brightman, who was to blast off to the station in a Russian Soyuz rocket on Sept. 1, said in March that she is working with composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, her ex-husband, to create a song she will sing in space.

Brightman’s decision followed last month’s launch failure of an unmanned Russian cargo spaceship, which was caused by a leak of propellant tanks in the Soyuz rocket carrying it into orbit.