Russian Space Official Denies Payment Deadline For Bass

CNN reports Russian space officials denied a news report that *NSYNC member Lance Bass has until Friday (August 9) to meet a payment schedule deadline to join an October flight to space. Sergei Gorbunov of the Russian Aviation and Space Agency said he never told news agencies there was any deadline. Still, Alexander Derechin, working for Energia Company which builds Russian space rockets refused to confirm or deny the reported deadline, but said he was “amazed it got into the press.”