Justin Bieber all Set to Head to Space on Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo

Teen heart-throb, 19-year-old Canadian pop singer Justin Bieber has paid $250,000 to reserve a seat on Virgin Galatic's SpaceShipTwo, scheduled to launch by 2015.

SpaceShipTwo, which was founded by Richard Branson, (founder and chairman of Virgin Groups) is a suborbital spaceplane that offers private citizens a chance to visit space in the future.

The news went viral after Branson Tweeted: "Great to hear @justinbieber & @scooterbraun are latest @virgingalactic future astronauts. Congrats, see you up there!"  

To which Bieber replied: "Let's shoot a music video in space!" 

Scooter Barun is Bieber's manager, and will be joining the young celebrity on his trip to space.

SpaceshipTwo was officially announced March 2007 in California. The company successfully completed the series of test flights in April 2013. With 25 successful round trips, the developers behind SpaceShipTwo are confident that the spaceplane is ready; however, they plan on completing 100 test flights to ensure the complete safety of passengers.

The newly-designed space plane, which is 60 feet long with a 90-inch diameter cabin, can accommodate six passengers and has sufficient space to allow an out-of-seat zero gravity experience. WhiteKnightTwo is the carrier aircraft that will take the spaceplane to nearly 50,000 feet high and then separate itself from the SpaceShipTwo. After this, the spaceplane will travel to a final distance of 60 miles.

"We hope to create thousands of astronauts over the next few years and bring alive their dream of seeing the majestic beauty of our planet from above, the stars in all their glory and the amazing sensation of weightlessness," Branson said during the website launch.

So far, more than 600 people have signed up for it. Apart from Bieber, the other celebrities making their trip to space would be Angeline Jolie, Ashton Kutcher and Leonardo DiCaprio.