Canadian pop-star, and emerging pop-diva, Justin Bieber, is going into space. Bieber and manager Scooter Braun have signed on for a 2-day 'suborbital' space flight with Virgin Galactic, owned by American entrepreneur, Richard Branson.
"Great to hear @justinbieber & @scooterbraun are latest @virgingalactic future astronauts," Branson tweeted last week. "Congrats, see you up there!"
There's no specific start date set for the launch of Branson's Virgin Galactic space flights, but the company is reportedly hoping to begin taking people into space by early in 2014. Given the cost it's not likely you and I will have the opportunity - it's an out of this world $250,000 for a seat.
The trip takes the adventurer up 62,000 miles in altitude, which will just get them into what is defined internationally as the boundary of space. For all of that money Bieber will get some time in weightlessness up there before returning home. He'll be up there about 2 days give or take a few hours and there are other celebrities signed on for a flight, including Tom Hanks, Leonardo DiCaprio, Aston Kutcher, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.
Bieber's fellow Canadian, Chris Hadfield, was recently in space. Hadfield commanded the International Space Station for five months from December into May. While up there Hadfield, who in addition to being an astronaut is a singer and musician, took a page out of Bieber's book and recorded an album. He also recorded a video of the David Bowie song, 'Space Oddity'.
Back on the planet Earth, of late Bieber's woes continue, the latest being reports of the 19-year-old speeding around in his Ferrari in his wealthy neighborhood of Calabasas near L.A. and an incident between two of his bodyguards and a photographer.
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