Justin Bieber the astronaut?!
Not exactly.
But Bieber and his manager Scooter Braun
are heading to space on a suborbital
flight with Virgin Galactic, which Virgin founder Richard Branson
shared with his Twitter followers Wednesday.
"Great to hear @justinbieber & @scooterbraun are latest
@virgingalactic future astronauts. Congrats, see you up there!," he
tweeted. Bieber later re-Tweeted the message, confirming the big news.
Bieber and Braun will also be in good company.
Ashton Kutcher,
Tom Hanks and
Leonardo DiCaprio
are among the other celebrities who have signed up for flights on
Virgin Galactic, which start at $250,000 and up to travel on Branson's
rocket-powered SpaceShipTwo.