'N Sync star's space trek scrapped: After failing to fulfil the conditions of his contract, Lance Bass has been told that his training at the Cosmonaut Training Center has ended and that his flight to the ISS is impossible," spokesman Sergei Gorbunov told Reuters. "We are preparing to send a cargo container to the ISS instead of a third crew member."

Absolutely no comment. None. Nope. Not one. Couldn't get me to compare Lance Bass to a cargo container if my life depended on it. Nope. Nosirree.

For the sake of fairness, I will point out that according to MSNBC, thing may not be definite as yet. Although I note that they're even more direct in comparing Mr Bass to a cargo container. But I will not go there. No. Dignity, always dignity.

(Who knew that being in a boy band could be so lucrative? I mean, how many people have $20 million lying around to throw at the Russian space program? And, you know, if I had a spare $20 million or so lying around ... well, OK, I don't believe I would trust the notoriously underfunded Russian program with my actual body, but I can understand the desire to do so.)

If I understand rightly the problem is that old boy-toy isn't actually coughing up scratch. Seems that his 'handlers' want to comp it out rather than actually pay money. And to that I'm with the Russians, ____'em.