The world's richest man Bezos founded the space company Blue Origin on Thursday and announced that Oliver Daemen, an 18-year-old Dutch boy, will become the last member of Bezos's space travel team on July 20.
(Source: Blue Origin) It should be noted that Oliver's ticket originally belonged to the anonymous winner who had won the auction with $28 million, but because of the time conflict of the latter, it could only be arranged for subsequent flights. Blue Origin said that Oliver also participated in the auction and won the ticket for the second flight, which is also the reason why he got the opportunity to go to space with the world's richest man. Oliver just graduated from high school last year, and then suspended from school for a year to study private jet driver's license. He plans to go to Utrecht University to study physics and innovation management in September this year.
Blue Origin confirmed that Oliver's ticket fee was paid by his father, Joe Daemen, CEO of Somerset Capital, which also made him the first tourist to pay to enter space. Coincidentally, in addition to the Bezos brothers, there was also Wally Funk, an 82 year old former pilot in the flight team, which also made the flight set the record of the oldest and youngest astronauts in human history.
According to the arrangement, Blue Origin's new Shepard recoverable rocket system will take tourists to the edge of 340000 feet (103 kilometers) of space, feel weightlessness for three minutes, and then return to Earth.
