Space, new flight to Bezos on 20 July: with him an 18-year-old

With the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos will fly on July 20 a Dutch eighteen year old, Oliver Daemen. To announce it is Blue Origin. The winner of the $ 28 million auction will then leave on another flight. A company spokesperson said Daemen, who will be attending Utrecht University in the Netherlands to study physics and innovation management, participated in the auction “and had secured a seat on the second flight. We moved it to the first flight. that has become available “. The father of the eighteen year old is Joes Daemen, CEO and founder of Somerset Capital Partners, which invests in real estate, private equity and financial markets. The flight is scheduled for Tuesday from the company’s remote launch site in rural West Texas. Daemen will travel with Bezos and brother Mark Bezos and 82-year-old astronaut Wally Funk, who was one of the participants on Mercury 13, a program in which 13 women were subjected to the same training as NASA astronauts to demonstrate how gender membership did not matter to be a good pilot. But unlike men, women in Mercury 13 never had the chance to fly. “At 18 and 82, Oliver Daemen and Wally Funk represent the youngest and oldest astronauts to travel to space,” Blue said. Origin in a statement.Blue Origin said the $ 28 million ticket money will go to its nonprofit, Club for the Future, which promotes people to pursue careers in science, technology, math and engineering. The group announced Wednesday that it would award $ 1 million in grants to 19 nonprofits including the National Space Society, Space Camp, the Planetary Society, and students for space exploration and development, a university group of which Bezos joined while he was a student at Princeton University. Blue Origin said 7,600 bidders from 159 countries took part in the auction. The flight is scheduled to coincide with the July 20 anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969.