David Beckham is contemplating traveling to space, The Sun has alleged. The publication reports that the football ace, 43, has been ‘mulling it over for some time’ and that it’s looking like it could happen now that ‘space travel is becoming a more realistic prospect’.
If that wasn’t enough, the father-of-four apparently even wants to ‘kick a ball’ while he’s up in the ‘celestial heavens’.
A source is said to have told the newspaper: ‘It’s something that David has talked about for quite a while. It has been mooted in the past but now space travel is becoming a more realistic prospect it could be a reality.’
Adding rocket fuel to the fire, David’s children Brooklyn, 19, Romeo, 16, Cruz, 13 and Harper, seven, are all said to be beside themselves over the prospect, and ‘have been talking about it and think it would be pretty cool’.
But it’s not all plain intergalactic sailing for the husband of Spice Girl-turned-fashion designer Victoria; the source goes on to admit David has ‘admitted privately he’s very nervous’ about the prospect of being blasted into the ether.
The reports are also said to be backed up by claims that companies such as Virgin Galactic – who will potentially be ready to send tourists to an altitude of 360,890ft ‘in the very near future’ [according to boss Richard Branson] – have their eye on David for sponsorship deals.