In 2015, English soprano Sarah Brightman had been expected to become the eighth client of Space Adventures to visit the International Space Station, paying for her flight, with the company announcing that Brightman had postponed her trip "for personal family reasons." Brightman was initially expected to be replaced by another Space Adventures client, Japanese advertisement entrepreneur Satoshi Takamatsu; however, in June 2015, the company announced that Takamatsu had elected to postpone his flight in order to prepare for "art projects that would like to perform in space require cutting-edge technology both in hardware and software." The spot was eventually taken by Kazakh government cosmonaut Aidyn Aimbetov.