Lance Bass Still a Fan of Space Travel

While his plans to fly to the international space station were canceled last year, ‘N Sync singer Lance Bass remains an avid supporter of space travel.

He’ll return to Houston, where he trained a year ago at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, to promote space, math and science to students as part of World Space Week.

“I’m very excited about flying in space one day,” Bass said Wednesday. “What excites me even more is the possibility that eventually nearly anyone will be able to travel in space just as easily as taking a plane from L.A. to Houston. But that day will only arrive if today’s young people choose to build an extraordinary future for themselves. The keys to that future are a solid foundation in math and science.”

During World Space Week, from Oct. 4-10, Bass will visit several Houston elementary and middle schools and review design proposals for “Lance’s Lab,” a competition in which students will create a hypothetical space station module in which the singer could live.

Bass, 24, would have been the youngest person ever in space. He had to cancel plans to fly to the space station aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft last October because he failed to raise the estimated $20 million fare.

World Space Week, which the United Nations General Assembly established in 1999, is a celebration with events around the world.