18-year-old man to travel to space with Jeff Bezos

The New Shepard spacecraft, launched by Blue Origin on July 20, will carry Blue Origin and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his younger brother, Willie Funk, a former female astronaut program in the 1960s. However, the person who won the remaining one ticket for $28 million was not disclosed anonymously. However, this time, an anonymous passenger delayed boarding due to circumstances, and someone else was rushed to board.

This man, Oliver Daemen, is an 18-year-old young man. It appears that his father, Joes Daemen, CEO of hedge-fund firm Somerset Capital Partners, bought the canceled ticket, not Oliver himself, but it would have been expensive enough.

The Blue Origin launch may not have much of an impact as it has been testing and realizing space travel with Virgin Galactic Sir Richard Branson. But with the 18- and 82-year-olds and the Bezos brothers standing in the passenger lineup, it could be a unique and historic flight enough. The same is true of privately-owned spacecraft carrying ordinary passengers who have actually purchased tickets. It can be said that it is the first space trip to cross the Karman Line, 100 km above the ground, which Virgin Galactic has not reached.

Virgin Galactic is expected to start commercial space travel in 2022 and is already taking reservations for hundreds of tickets. It is also known that SpaceX Elon Musk paid a deposit to board the spacecraft after the Sir Branson flight.

After a long development period for Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic, the time has finally come to realize commercial space travel. However, this is not the end point, but the beginning of an era in which private companies compete to make money in space. Related information can be found here.