Here’s some news to brighten up your day – at some point in the near future, the planet will be free of Justin Bieber.?
Richard Branson has announced on his Twitter that the swaggy one and his manager Scooter Braun are the latest in a string of people with far too much money on their hands to sign up to be shot into space on a Virgin Galactic flight. Tickets for the flight reportedly start around the $250k mark, but there’s no word on how much humanity would have to cough up to convince the pilot to ‘accidentally’ lean on the button that opens the airlock.
Justin hasn’t spilled anymore details about his flight into space, but he has threatened to release more music in honour of the trip, tweeting:
Let’s shoot a music video in SPACE!! #nextLEVEL
Sorry, but if it doesn’t involve Richard Branson bursting out of Justin’s chest dressed as Chewbacca, then I’m not interested.
Virgin’s SpaceShipTwo seats six passengers and will travel around 68 miles up in the air, so that passengers can experience zero gravity for a few minutes, get a glimpse of Earth, and apparently film any music videos.
It’s currently going through testing and is expecting to start with the commerical flights next year, which means Justin has plenty of time to find a place that sells astronaut suits with drop-crotch pants and studded helmets.
Bieber isn’t the only deliriously rich person that will be floating around Earth’s atmosphere in the coming years – Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Tom Hanks, Ashton Kutcher and Stephen Hawking have all signed up for a trip. Last month, one guest at a charity auction at the Cannes Film Festival bought a seat next to Leonardo DiCaprio for $1.2 million.
For that amount, I’d be expecting him to have handfuls of diamonds and be wearing nothing but a smile.