Funk is the oldest person to ever travel into space, while Daemen is the youngest. The sci-fi actor, 90, will be going to space aboard Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ New Shepard rocket, according to TMZ. "We're not disclosing how much he paid."Īlso on the flight, outside of the auction, was Wally Funk, an 82-year-old pilot, and one of the "Mercury 13" women (who trained with NASA to fly into space but was denied the opportunity). Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is shipping his space business to. We moved him up when this seat on the first flight became available," a Blue Origin spokesperson told CNN Business. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, left, unveils the new Blue Origin rocket, as Florida. In his or her stead, 18 year-old recent high school graduate Oliver Daemen joined the flight.ĭaemen "was a participant in the auction and had secured a seat on the second flight.
However, this person had to bow out because of "scheduling conflicts" and will instead board a future flight. Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket booster fired its engine, accelerated away from the launch pad and into the Texas. The winner was a mystery bidder, who paid $28 million for a seat on Blue Origin's first flight. Blue Origin’s rocket launches to edge of space, carrying Jeff Bezos and crew. The passengers were Jeff Bezos, his brother Mark Bezos, Wally Funk, and Oliver Daemen. Per NBC, bidding included 6,000 participants from 143 countries. The flight lasted approximately 10 minutes and crossed the Krmn line. According to the company, the money garnered from the auction will be donated to Blue Origin's foundation, Club for the Future, which promotes STEM education initiatives. In May, Blue Origin announced that it would auction off one seat on the flight to the highest bidder. Jeff and Mark Bezos were not alone on their space flight. According to the Blue Origin website, the company aims for "the vision of enabling a future where millions of people are living and working in space to benefit Earth." New Shepard's launch marked the end of six years of extensive testing of the rocket and capsule conducted by Blue Origin, the space company Bezos founded in 2000. On July 20, the billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos briefly went to space in a rocket from his company, Blue Origin. On July 11, Branson and three crew members launched into space over New Mexico on the rocket SpaceShipTwo, which Virgin Galactic spent two decades developing. and founder of Blue Origin LLC, smiles while speaking at the unveiling of the Blue Origin New Shepard system during the Space Symposium in. Bezos was slated to be the first of the "billionaire space tycoons" to leave the Earth himself, until Virgin Galactic's Richard Branson beat him to the punch last week. Jeff Bezos, chief executive officer of Inc. During Bezos's journey, the rocket ship embarked on a 10 minute and 10 second flight and passed the 62-mile boundary, which is, per The New York Times, often considered to be the beginning of outer space. Per CNN, Blue Origin features a six-seater capsule and 59-foot rocket.
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