British singer Sarah Brightman will be the next space tourist and will travel to the International Space Station after 2013.

Brightman said at a news conference in Moscow on Wednesday that she wants to participate in a space flight and recently received a confirmation from the Russian space agency Roscosmos that she had passed medical and physical fitness tests and was cleared to start training.

She said she would start a six-month training course after her world tour ends in 2013.

The date of the flight is being negotiated with Roscosmos and other partners in the ISS project, Brightman said.