The former wife of composer Andrew Lloyd Weber has confirmed she will be travelling to the International Space Station with the Russian Space Agency, ROSCOSMOS.
Reports in the US said she had ‘bumped’ an astronaut off the next flight after outbidding Nasa to secure her seat as the next space tourist.
The 52-year-old singer refused to say how much she paid for her place aboard the Soyuz spacecraft, but said she was getting sponsorship.
A US TV station said she had paid $51million (around £31.8million) – the highest sum ever offered for a ticket.
Miss Brightman will begin training for the mission in 2014 after a 12-month world tour and will lift off later that year for two weeks orbiting Earth.
She said: ‘I am more excited about this than I have been about anything I have done. ‘Most of my life I have felt an incredible desire to take the journey to space that I have now begun. This is beyond my wildest dreams.'
She has already undergone physical and psychological tests in Moscow to prove she is fit enough for the challenge. ‘I was prodded and poked and a lot of blood was taken,’ she said.
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