Abort mission: Ashton Kutcher says wife Mila Kunis talked him into selling his $200,000 space flight ticket
Ashton Kutcher may be feeling a bit of FOMO right now, but at the end of the day, family always comes first.
Actor Ashton Kutcher was among the over 600 people from 58 countries who bought Virgin Galactic space flight tickets ranging from $200,00 (P10 million) to $250,000 (P12.5 million).
It was in 2012 when Kutcher reportedly bought his ticket for a future space mission. But fast-forward to almost a decade later, as missions to the edge of space are finally taking off, Kutcher will not being going to space anytime soon.
Kutcher, 43, revealed in an interview with Cheddar News that he was supposed to be on the next Virgin Galactic flight but he sold his ticket back to the company at the behest of his wife, actress Mila Kunis.
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“When I got married and had kids, my wife basically encouraged that it was not a smart family decision to be heading into space when we have young children, so I ended up selling my ticket back to Virgin Galactic,” said the That ‘70s Show and Two and a Half Men star.
Kutcher and Kunis started dating in 2012, and got married in 2015. They have two children, six-year-old Wyatt and four-year-old Dimitri.
“I was supposed to be on the next flight but I will not be on the next flight,” said the actor, who is still hopeful that he will one day blast off into space.
“But at some point, I’ll be going to space,” Kutcher said during the interview.
On July 11, Richard Branson with his crew of five flew to the edge of space via the VSS Unity space plane ahead of other billionaires, former Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and SpaceX founder Elon Musk.
The successful 90-minute mission may have brought humanity a step closer to space tourism, but only a privileged few will be able to afford to travel outside the earth.
For Virgin Galactic, some 600 people from 58 countries that have reserved a ticket ranging between $200,000 and $250,000, include celebrities like Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga and Leonardo DiCaprio, according to an Insider report.
The company reportedly plans to conduct one more test flight before it start its commercial trips into space.
On July 20, the richest man in the world, Jeff Bezos, made history by successfully completing an all-civilian suborbital flight by his spaceflight company Blue Origin.
With him onboard the fully autonomous space vehicle, New Shepard, were his brother Mark Bezos, 82-year-old former test pilot Wally Funk of the US, and 18-year-old Oliver Daemen of the Netherlands. Funk and Daemen are the oldest and youngest person to reach space respectively.