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"As if he isn&amp;apos;t already a big star, now Justin Bieber wants to go to the stars!\r\nThe 19-year-old crooner and his manager, Scooter Braun, 31, have signed up for an intergalactic adventure with Virgin Galactic, according to Virgin&amp;apos;s billionaire founder, Richard Branson.\r\nThe British entrepreneur tweeted the exciting news,\r\n\r\nGreat to hear @justinbieber &amp;amp; @scooterbraun are latest @virgingalactic future astronauts. Congrats, see you up there!\r\n&amp;#x2014; richardbranson (@richardbranson) June 5, 2013\r\n\r\nAnd followed up with an idea for the showstopper ...\r\n\r\n.@justinbieber @scooterbraun @virgingalactic music video in space? Now that&amp;apos;s what I call music! virg.in/bie &amp;#x2014; richardbranson (@richardbranson) June 6, 2013\r\n\r\nBoth stars retweeted Branson&amp;apos;s message, but Scooter officially confirmed the exciting news via his own Twitter account.\r\n\r\nim going to space momma!! cc @virgingalactic @richardbranson @dcgalactic\r\n&amp;#x2014; Scooter Braun (@scooterbraun) June 5, 2013\r\n\r\nTheir space journey will reportedly set them each back $250,000, which probably seems like chump change to the teen heartthrob, who, according to Forbes, raked in a cool $55 million in 2012.\r\nTaking a journey to the stars is something that has been on the Canadian cutie&amp;apos;s mind for months. In February 2012, he dished to his 40 million Twitter followers, &amp;quot;I wanna do a concert in space.&amp;quot; NASA seemed fond of the idea and replied, &amp;quot;Maybe we can help you with that.&amp;quot;\r\nThe scientific community is clearly aware of the power of making the &amp;quot;Believe&amp;quot; singer a Biebernaut.\r\nAt the 2012 Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference, Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute, said, &amp;quot;My suggestion is, be sure to send Justin Bieber on one of these flights early on. If there&amp;apos;s more interest, there are more customers. If there are more customers, there&amp;apos;s more technical development.&amp;quot;\r\nVirgin Galactic&amp;apos;s space vehicle SpaceShipTwo broke the speed of sound in April when they completed their first rocket-powered flight and is expected to start their commercial space flights as early as next year. Bieber isn&amp;apos;t the only celeb to take advantage of this voyage: Ashton Kutcher, Sarah Brightman, and Victoria Principal all have booked their tickets.\r\nClearly, the sky is the limit for the Biebs.\r\nMore Celebrity Features on Yahoo!:\r\nThe Rock Shows Us His Crazy Buff Bod &amp;#x2026; From When He Was 15!\r\nKristen Bell Tweets Pic of Her Breast Pump Backstage at CMT Awards\r\nSee Miley Cyrus&amp;apos;s Brother Make His Modeling Debut"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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