Lance Bass, NSYNC singer alongside Justin Timberlake, trained to become an astronaut

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[u/DMmeNiceTitties]

Maybe that's the real message behind Bye Bye Bye, they're going bye bye bye out of this world.

[u/Strict-Jeweler-2281 → u/DMmeNiceTitties]

I hope he's in a "Better Place" now!

[u/oncore2011 → u/Strict-Jeweler-2281]

Fuck this guy.

[u/WayofHatuey → u/DMmeNiceTitties]

Put the phone down dad

[u/S30econdstoMars]

Training to be an astronaut at the height of your boyband fame is the most random plot twist of the 2000s.

[u/Bruce-7892 → u/S30econdstoMars]

Did he though? This has got to be a publicity stunt unless you mean to tell me NASA invested millions into tracing Lance Bass.

[u/WalkItOffAT → u/Bruce-7892]

Tbf he was easy to trace at the bath house and rollerblading dome

[u/ElegantCoach4066 → u/WalkItOffAT]

[u/Pocusmaskrotus → u/Bruce-7892]

Iirc, he spent like $20M to go to space with the Russians. Don't remember if he actually went.

[u/blinky0930 → u/Pocusmaskrotus]

This isxwhat hexaas training for. He didnt end of going. I think it was cause of the $$

[u/isaacfrost0]

He was the voice of Sephiroth in KH1 for some reason

[u/Ur_Just_Spare_Parts]

Imagine going into astronaut interview with that face and hair and expecting to be taken seriously

[u/Bruce-7892 → u/Ur_Just_Spare_Parts]

There was always something off about Lance

[u/Kokhin3000]

Howard Wolowitz did it, why not him ?

[u/Cutsdeep- → u/Kokhin3000]

Embarrassing reference

[u/Cutsdeep- → u/Cutsdeep-]

well it is

[u/portra315]

Just imagine the goodbye dance as he prepared for his launch

[u/deckard1980]

I saw him in a bar in Moscow when he was training for it there

[u/Inevitable-Cup9067]

Cosmonaut. Go home karma bot.

[u/grapesodabandit → u/Inevitable-Cup9067]

Neither, really. He would have been a paying tourist, not a working astronaut/cosmonaut.

[u/MukdenMan → u/Inevitable-Cup9067]

Cause you and I will be like a couple of cosmonauts

Except with way more gravity than when we started off

[u/Strict-Jeweler-2281 → u/Inevitable-Cup9067]

Moot distinction. He also trained with NASA at the Johnson Space Center

[u/Inevitable-Cup9067 → u/Strict-Jeweler-2281]

Back in the day, if you wanted to pay to to go space you could pay the Russians. Today you can pay Bezos.

Katy Perry is not an Astronaut, and neither is Lance Bass.

[u/Strict-Jeweler-2281 → u/Inevitable-Cup9067]

NASA used to award astronaut pins to the first commercial astronauts, then the FAA created a commercial astronaut category in 2004, then they scrapped it all in 2022, so now they're just plain old space tourists.

[u/FluffyNerve7415 → u/Strict-Jeweler-2281]

*attended the mandatory safety briefing.

[u/oncore2011 → u/Strict-Jeweler-2281]

Fuck this guy.

[u/pdmanias]

Why did they have to write that he was in the band with jt? Just sh*tten on my boy lance

[u/Strict-Jeweler-2281 → u/pdmanias]

I only did that because I told my kids this fact and they were like "wtf is NSYNC"

[u/pdmanias → u/Strict-Jeweler-2281]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[u/Imbendo]

Them eyes just ooze I wanna be more than friends

[u/Environmental-Cake42]

Lance Bass Space Camp! from the sitcom Single Parents. Here's a clip with the earworm theme song several times! - https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1956354888355352

[u/Temporary_Bus_6523]

I can't possibly think of anyone else more deserving. To imagine the amount of time and dedication they've invested in their education and scientific career is astonishing.

[u/FluffyNerve7415 → u/Temporary_Bus_6523]

Bot ass comment

[u/Temporary_Bus_6523 → u/FluffyNerve7415]

You know what sarcasm is right? lol

[u/SoaringPasta]

Guess he really would be Walking On Air

[u/Strict-Jeweler-2281]

"Bass, who was a member of the pop group NSYNC, had spent months in training with Russia in 2002 for a mission to the International Space Station (ISS). His $20 million seat aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft was purchased through Dutch-based space tourism company MirCorp anr > bankrolled by a documentary. But th. documentary's insurance company backed out just weeks before launch, and Bass lost his seat aboard the Soyuz."

https://www.space.com/nsync-lass-bass-canceled-space-mission-podcast

[u/FluffyNerve7415 → u/Strict-Jeweler-2281]

So you know full well what the actual story was, and still chose a bullshit clickbait title.

[u/oncore2011 → u/FluffyNerve7415]

Yeah…fuck this guy.

[u/Strict-Jeweler-2281 → u/oncore2011]

Please don't, that would be weird

[u/WaddlesLament → u/oncore2011]

You keep writing that all over this thread. Do you want to fuck that guy?

[u/oncore2011 → u/WaddlesLament]

I was trying to start a movement. Like the wave in a stadium.

[u/Strict-Jeweler-2281 → u/FluffyNerve7415]

Why is Astronaut instead of cosmonaut "bullshit" or "clickbait"? I accept it's the wrong country, but it's the same training and role.

[u/FluffyNerve7415 → u/Strict-Jeweler-2281]

This is the equivalent of calling yourself a pilot because you bought a ticket on spirit airlines, and listing the safety briefing to about your seat belt and oxygen mask as "training". Astronaut is a professional distinction, it is not a description of anyone who reaches a specific altitudes.

[u/Strict-Jeweler-2281 → u/FluffyNerve7415]

I feel the same way, but technically NASA used to award astronaut pins to the first commercial astronauts, then the FAA created a commercial astronaut category in 2004, then they scrapped it all in 2022, so now they're just plain old space tourists.

[u/silversoul007 → u/Strict-Jeweler-2281]

Would have been a great chance to sing Bye Bye Bye as he takes off from Earth.