Sarah Brightman to Sing New Andrew Lloyd Webber Music from Outer Space!

At a press conference held today, Sarah Brightman discussed details on her upcoming trip to the International Space Station, scheduled to launch September 1st, 2015.

At the event, it was revealed that Brightman will team with her former husband, Andrew Lloyd Webber, to perform all- new music from the composer at the end of her 10-day mission.

Brightman said singing in space presented a "very different" challenge than performing on Earth, according to the BBC.

"An engineer or someone from the sciences or biology would go up into space and do what they can - their experiments. But with me all I can do is sing," she said, adding "I would like to connect with a choir, or children or another singer or an orchestra on Earth."

Speaking on the collaboration with Lord Lloyd-Webber, she explained, "He has come up with the most beautiful line for something, so we are just taking it slowly at the moment," she said. "It's finding a song which suits the idea of space and something that is incredibly simple because to sing in microgravity is a very, very different thing to singing down here. We use the earth to ground ourselves when we sing and the air around us. This is going to be very different. I'm trying to find a piece that is beautiful and simple in its message, as well as not complicated to sing."

Due to the complex vocal challenges of singing in space, Brightman went on to caution that she didn't want to "promise too much" to her fans right now.

Brightman shared that she was most surprised to discover that the world of show business did not differ much from the world of rocket scientry. "When you are performing you are traveling around for years and going to different venues and different countries," she explained. "You are continually jet-lagged, you are up against time, you have to make fast decisions, you have to think on your feet, you are often sweating in costumes. And at the end of the day when you are a solo performer and something goes wrong then everyone comes to you, even though everybody does an amazing job."

"So when I started getting into the program I actually realized that I understand all the feelings I am going through," she continued. "It wasn't a shock to me. I am able to take command. I am able to make decisions. I am able to get through fear."

The Phantom of the Opera star will blast off for a 10-day stay on the International Space Station this fall. The trip has been arranged through private American firm Space Adventures, and will cost Brightman $52 million.

Brightman will travel on a Russian Soyuz capsule which was retired by NASA in 2011. She will become the eighth tourist and first professional singer to visit the space station, a $100 billion research laboratory project of 15 nations.

Read more on the press conference here!

Source: PEOPLE

Source: BBC.com

Photo Credit: Peter James Zielinski