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[pensnest]

My husband just sent me this link.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/lance-bass-was-kicked-off-a-russian-spaceflight-two-decades-ago-now-hes-back/

Even the comments are worth a read.

<3

Comments

[altamira16]

I remember when he was going to go to space! I didn't remember the part where he never actually got to go.

[pensnest]

I was late to the fandom, and was extremely bewildered when I encountered a whole bunch of Lance-goes-to-space stories. I concluded after a while that there must have been a weird story challenge, only to discover that, no, he went to Russia to train as a cosmonaut. You couldn't put it in a fictional fandom!

[dine]

that was interesting! the comments were a hoot - though I was a tad surprised by how many focused on technical stuff rather than Lance Bass/the article

[pensnest]

Well, it's Ars Technica, which my husband the physics graduate reads regularly. I'm quite surprised anyone knew who Lance Bass was!

[dine]

Well, it's Ars Technica
ah, that does explain it! I'd not really paid attention to where the article came from, which obviously does matter

[sperrywink]

Wait a minute, that was TWO DECADES AGO?????

Now I feel completely old, ahaha!

[pensnest]

It is rather dismaying, indeed! It never quite seemed real to me because I didn't know Lance Bass existed at the time, so his space adventure was made known to me via the fic.

[turlough]

I didn't know Lance was still so involved with space stuff. That's so cool! (Also, your icon is absolutely perfect!)

[pensnest]

Neither did I - but it's very pleasing. It's nice to see him—hear him, anyway—doing serious stuff now and again, as he mostly seems to have made a career out of having fun!

[brandywine28]

The wording of that headline is so funny to me. And now he's back!!! *jazz hands*

I think most of the Lance-in-space-training stories I've read were more about the pining and the gentle yearning. Like, Lance is away in Russia for months on end. Russia is cold and lonely. The other guys miss him. Everyone is masturbating a lot. But -- guns and screaming I do not recall. As with most things, I think the fandom version is way better than the reality.

[pensnest]

Mind you, if we'd known about the guns and screaming at the time, imagine the excruciatingly wound-up angst there might have been! Not that I'd have had anything to do with it, since I had no idea at the time that Lance Bass even existed.