Jeff Bezos: Oliver Daemen is working on getting his pilot’s license and attending the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands in September to study physics and innovation management.
An 18-year-old physics student whose father runs an investment management business is scheduled to take the place of a person who bid $28 million in an auction to participate in billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin company’s maiden space tourism trip. Blue Origin said on Thursday that Oliver Daemen would join the four-person all-civilian crew for Tuesday’s scheduled trip after the auction winner, whose name was not disclosed, backed out due to undisclosed “scheduling problems.”
Daemen is the first paying customer for the firm. According to Blue Origin, his addition means that the voyage will feature the oldest person ever to fly to space – 82-year-old trailblazing female aviator Wally Funk — as well as the youngest, Daemen. Bezos and his brother Mark Bezos will join them for Blue Origin’s suborbital flight.
According to Blue Origin, Daemen is working on getting his pilot’s license and attending the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands in September to study physics and innovation management. His father is Somerset Capital Partners CEO and founder Joes Daemen. According to Blue Origin, the older Daemen “paid for the seat and decided to fly Oliver” according to Blue Origin.
Bezos is competing with billionaire competitors Richard Branson and Elon Musk to usher in a new age of commercial space travel in a tourist sector that Swiss bank UBS thinks could be worth $3 billion per year in a decade. New Shepard is a 60-foot (18.3-meter) tall completely autonomous rocket-and-capsule combination that cannot be piloted from within the ship.
The launch will need a place in West Texas. On Sunday, Branson, the British billionaire tycoon, rode aboard Virgin Galactic’s rocket plane for its pioneering suborbital trip from New Mexico.
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