How NSYNC's Lance Bass almost became a cosmonaut

Most people know Lance Bass for his time with 90s boyband NSYNC, with their hits such as "Bye, Bye, Bye" and "It's Gonna Be Me" or more recently as a contestant on Dancing with the Stars (the US version of Strictly Come Dancing).

But what not many people know is that he is also a space fanatic and has completed cosmonaut training.

He is now narrating a new podcast, The Last Soviet, about cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev who was on board space station Mir when the Soviet Union fell.

We spoke with Lance Bass about how he almost became a cosmonaut and what it was like training in Russia.

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