Justin Bieber is heading into space. The 19-year-old pop star has signed up for a space flight aboard the Virgin Galactic, the New York Daily News reports.
Virgin Galactic's billionaire founder Richard Branson tweeted congratulations to the "Boyfriend" singer.
Bieber retweeted the news while his manager seems to have confirmed the report by adding "I'm going to space momma!"
Bieber has expressed his interest before about heading to space. In February he tweeted "I wanna do a concert in space," in which NASA responded by offering to help him do that.
The Daily News reports that tickets to get a seat on the Galactic start at $250,000 per person.
Biebs is not the only celebrity to a purchase a space flight ticket. Leonardo DiCaprio is also set to board the flight for its first suborbital trip.
A seat next to the DiCaprio was auctioned off at the Cannes Film Festival for $1.5 million. Other stars reportedly joining the flight are Tom Hanks, Victoria Principal, Ashton Kutcher, Sarah Brightman, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and scientist Stephen Hawkings.
The spaceship just completed its first "rocket-powered test last month," TMZ reports. Commercial flights are expected to lift off by the end of the year.
According to the Daily Mail, at the height of the trip, passengers "would feel a few minutes of weightlessness, get a view of the curving Earth beneath a black sky, and then experience a roller-coaster ride back down to a runway landing."
The Virgin Galactic began taking bookings for the flight back in 2007. The first flight is scheduled to leave Christmas Day 2013, the Daily Mail reports.
