The Blue Origin mission is expected to move forward with six crew members after a 2021 bid from the Tron founder.
Blue Origin, the privately-owned space technology company launched by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, said Tron founder Justin Sun will be joining the crew of its next mission, which is expected to launch in a matter of weeks.
In a Monday notice, Blue Origin said Sun would join five others as part of the company’s 34th mission using its suborbital rocket system New Shepard, named after the first American in space, Alan Shepard. According to the company, Sun placed a bid for the first seat on the mission in 2021, contributing $28 million.
The 2021 notice suggested that Sun would personally pick the other five crew members, which the company said would be from “the TRON DAO community, comprising of long-term holders of TRX, BTT, JST, SUN, NFT, and WIN.” However, a spokesperson for the Tron founder told Cointelegraph he had not chosen the crew, which included a real estate investor, a businessman, a journalist and a venture capitalist.
