July 2002

1) The New York Times published an article about Joey Fatone’s Broadway debut in the musical RENT. The author mentions that a gap in his schedule (i.e., the hiatus) gave him the opportunity to audition for the play.
Title: Joey Fatone of ‘NSYNC To Make His Broadway Debut
Author(s): Jesse McKinley
Original Source: The New York Times

2) Lance was formally nominated for space travel by M.V. Sinelschikov, Head of Space Flight Directorate of the Russian Aviation and Space Agency. This graphic contains text from the a transcript of the nomination letter.
Title: None
Author(s) M.V. Sinelschikov
Original Source: Private correspondence (unavailable)
Secondary Source: Space.com

3) MTV.Com reported that a contract had been signed for Lance to officially become part of the Soyuz mission.
Title: Bass Inks Space Deal As Russia’s Partners Voice Concerns
Author(s): Jennifer Vineyard
Original Source: MTV News

4) Alan Boyle posted more updates about Lance’s tourism plans on the Cosmic Log.
Title: Cosmic Log
Author(s): Alan Boyle
Original Source: MSNBC.com (blog no longer available)
Secondary Source: Cosmiclog.com

5) An article about Lance’s preparation for the Soyuz mission was published in the Science and Tech section of MSNBC.com. Though authored by Alan Boyle this appears to be separate from his Cosmic Log blog.
Title: Russians Provide Data On Space Star: Space station partners review plan for ’N Sync singer’s flight
Author(s): Alan Boyle
Original Source: MSNBC

6) Access Hollywood broadcast a short segment about preparations for Lance’s space flight. This graphic contains text from a transcript that was posted in a fan thread on Abstracts.net. The transcript does not identify the speakers by name; however, Popdirt.com linked to the Abstracts thread claiming that Joey Fatone said *NSYNC would begin working on another album the following year.
Title: None
Transcriber(s):”admin” (name unknown)
Original Source: Access Hollywood broadcast (unavailable)
Secondary Source: Abstracts.net Justin Timberlake subforum
Current Link: No longer available (*see note in Sources)
Title: *Nsync Measure for Wax Figures
Author(s): Unknown
Original Source: Access Hollywood broadcast (unavailable)
Secondary source: Abstracts.net thread
Tertiary source: Pop Dirt (quote attributed to Joey Fatone)

7) MTV.com published an article about what was known of Justin’s solo album up to that point in time.
Title: Justin Timberlake Working ‘NSecret on Star-Packed Solo LP
Author(s): Corey Moss
Original Source: MTV News