Aerosmith's Tyler To Get His Wings In Space?

NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - Is Steven Tyler looking to go where no rocker has gone before? The Aerosmith frontman is "in serious talks to travel into space," according to a spokesperson for the band. The trip itself is still up in the air (pun intended), and if it does happen, there's no word on when Tyler would lift off.

One rumor has Tyler flying to the International Space Station (ISS), writing a song there, and then performing it live from space on a worldwide broadcast, but no one would go on the record about Tyler's plans if he does make the journey.

Tyler is the second singer to publicly think about leaving the planet. *NSYNC's Lance Bass has already undergone a battery of tests in Russia, the first of many steps before being allowed onto a Soyuz rocket later this year. If his health is fine, if he can complete cosmonaut training, and if he gets the approval of the Russian space agency, Bass will blast off from Kazakhstan on October 22, visit the ISS, and return to earth on November 1.

There's no word on how Tyler plans to pay the estimated $20 million needed for the space trip. Bass is lining up corporate sponsors to defray his costs, and RadioShack has already signed on as an underwriter.