Justin Bieber May Go To Space

By Anne Cohen June 6, 2013

Justin Bieber’s about to fly high.

According to the New York Post, Richard Branson, billionaire head of Virgin, has announced that the tween heartthrob, and his agent, Scooter Braun, were ready to launch aboard the Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo rocket plane, at $200,000 a ticket.

Great to hear @justinbieber & @scooterbraun are latest @virgingalactic future astronauts. Congrats, see you up there!

Forwarding the News

Thoughtful, balanced reporting from the Forward and around the web, bringing you updated news and analysis each day.

Terms(Required)
I agree to the Forward's Terms of Service and Privacy Policy
Email(Required)

ampmdash; richardbranson (@richardbranson) June 5, 2013

To which the Biebz replied:

@richardbranson @scooterbraun @virgingalactic let’s shoot a music video in SPACE!! #nextLEVEL

ampmdash; Justin Bieber (@justinbieber) June 5, 2013

Maybe he sounds better from 360,000 feet in the air.

Branson hopes the ship will launch from New Mexico around Christmas of this year, six passengers and two pilots at a time. According to the Post, the trip to and back from space lasts around two and a half hours.

Each passenger must undergo three days of space training, which hasn’t deterred 65,000 from putting their name down as candidates. Other celebrities reported to have purchased tickets include Stephen Hawking, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, and Ashton Kutcher.

Anne Cohen was the Forward’s deputy digital media editor. When she’s not looking for the secret Jewish history of Voodoo in New Orleans, or making lists about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, she writes for The Assimilator. She graduated from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism with an M.S. magazine concentration in 2012.

A message from our Publisher & CEO Rachel Fishman Feddersen

I hope you appreciated this article. Before you go, I’d like to ask you to please support the Forward’s award-winning, nonprofit journalism during this critical time.

The coming year promises to be filled with more complex and historic developments. We are entering an era where independent, fact-based Jewish journalism will be more important than ever. We need to be ready for whatever 2025 will bring, and with your help, we can be.

We’ve set a goal to raise $260,000 by December 31. That’s an ambitious goal, but one that will give us the resources we need to invest in the high quality news, opinion, analysis and cultural coverage that isn’t available anywhere else.

If you feel inspired to make an impact, now is the time to give something back. Join us as a member at your most generous level.

— Rachel Fishman Feddersen, Publisher and CEO