{"id":6624,"date":"2025-08-03T19:03:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T19:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/tron-founder-justin-sun-blasts-off-on-blue-origin-spaceflight\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T19:03:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T19:03:06","slug":"tron-founder-justin-sun-blasts-off-on-blue-origin-spaceflight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/tron-founder-justin-sun-blasts-off-on-blue-origin-spaceflight\/","title":{"rendered":"TRON founder Justin Sun blasts off on Blue Origin spaceflight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-detail__content blocks\">\n<p class=\"is-style-lead\">Cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun soared to the edge of space Sunday aboard a Blue Origin rocket, nearly three years after winning his seat with a $28 million bid.<\/p>\n<p>The TRON founder and Trump family ally had initially secured a spot on Blue Origin\u2019s first crewed launch with Jeff Bezos in 2021, but postponed the flight. <\/p>\n<p>    <!-- .cn-block-related-link --><\/p>\n<p>On Sunday morning, Sun joined five other passengers\u2014including a teacher, a venture capitalist, and a meteorologist\u2014for a brief suborbital ride aboard the New Shepard rocket from West Texas, according <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-08-03\/crypto-mogul-flies-to-space-aboard-latest-blue-origin-flight?srnd=phx-crypto&amp;sref=TBDibEcD\" target=\"_blank\">to<\/a> Bloomberg News. The mission marked Blue Origin\u2019s 14th human flight and continued the company\u2019s push to make space tourism a mainstream spectacle. <\/p>\n<p>Proceeds from Sun\u2019s winning bid went to Blue Origin\u2019s Club for the Future, a foundation supporting space-focused charities.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Origin<\/p>\n<p>The crew lifted off at 7:42 a.m. local time, experiencing a few minutes of weightlessness at the edge of space before returning safely to Earth. Alongside Sun were real estate investor Arvi Bahal; Turkish businessman G\u00f6khan Erdem; meteorologist and journalist Deborah Martorell; teacher Lionel Pitchford; and J.D. Russell, founder of Alpha Funds.<\/p>\n<p>Sun\u2019s participation was officially revealed just weeks before the flight, when Blue Origin announced the passenger list for its New Shepard NS-34 mission. The blockchain mogul\u2019s bid made headlines in 2021, though his identity as the winning bidder was initially kept under wraps.<\/p>\n<p>Previous high-profile New Shepard passengers have included pop star Katy Perry and Lauren S\u00e1nchez, now married to Bezos. <\/p>\n<p>While the trip lasted just minutes, it capped a long-awaited personal milestone for Sun\u2014and reaffirmed Blue Origin\u2019s role in ushering wealthy adventurers and celebrities into the space age.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- .cn-block-related-link --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun soared to the edge of space Sunday aboard a Blue Origin rocket, nearly three years after winning his seat with a $28 million bid. The TRON&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6625,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6624\/revisions\/6625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}