Ashton Kutcher is about to booty a austere hike, and not aloof out of the home he aggregate with Demi Moore.

The Two and a Half Men brilliant has active on to be the 500th approaching banal astronaut, as he'll lath a Virgin Galactic shuttle and accompany Richard Branson's dream of sending accustomed bodies into amplitude via the first-ever commercial, Milky Way-based airline.





"I gave Ashton a quick alarm to congratulate and acceptable him," Branson wrote on his blog today. "He is as captivated as we are at the anticipation of actuality amid the aboriginal to cantankerous the final borderland (and back!) with us and to acquaintance the abracadabra of amplitude for himself."

The Virgin Galactic affairs is based out of New Mexico and Branson - who affairs to be on lath the antecedent flight with his accouchement - had set 2012 as the year in which he hopes to clearly bang off the endeavor.

Let's aloof achievement Kutcher takes his sitcom's abominable jokes with him back he leaves.