When you're as famous as Justin Bieber, the 19-year-old pop star who this week became the first Twitter user to reach 40 million followers, you can spend money extravagantly.
His lastest purchase? A ticket on space tourism company Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo, which costs $250,000 a seat. His manager Scooter Braun will be tagging along.
After Virgin Galactic founder Sir Richard Branson revealed the news on Twitter, Bieber teased in a tweet that he wants to record a music video while in space. If he completes that feat, Bieber would become the second person to record a music video in space -- right behind Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, who recorded a song aboard the International Space Station in December and followed up with a video of a different song in May.
Great to hear @justinbieber & @scooterbraun are latest @virgingalactic future astronauts. Congrats, see you up there!— richardbranson (@richardbranson) June 5, 2013
@richardbranson @scooterbraun @virgingalactic let's shoot a music video in SPACE!! #nextLEVEL— Justin Bieber (@justinbieber) June 5, 2013
im going to space momma!! cc @virgingalactic @richardbranson @dcgalactic— Scooter Braun (@scooterbraun) June 5, 2013
.@justinbieber @scooterbraun @virgingalactic music video in space? Now that's what I call music! virg.in/bie— richardbranson (@richardbranson) June 6, 2013
No further details of Bieber's trip are available. The price to ride SpaceShipTwo recently increased from $200,000 a head to $250,000 after the company conducted a test flight in April.
Some, like Bill Nye the Science Guy, are waiting for the price to dip before committing to a seat on Virgin Galactic's spaceline. "[I] don't feel like I should spend $200,000 on a plane ticket to go to sub-orbital flight, straight up and straight down," Nye recently told Mashable. "But if the price comes down, I'll go, heck yeah."
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