The highest-profile NS-34 passenger is Justin Sun, a 34-year-old billionaire who founded the blockchain platform Tron. In June 2021, Sun won an auction for a seat aboard the first-ever crewed flight of New Shepard, plunking down $28 million. (He did so anonymously; we didn't learn that Sun posted the winning bid until December 2021 .)

Founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos gave crypto billionaire Justin Sun and five other people a ride to space. Reportedly, the mission — known as NS-34, because it was the 34th overall flight of Blue Origin’s New Shepard vehicle — lifted off from the company’s West Texas spaceport at 8:43 a.m. EDT (1243 GMT; 7:43 a.m. local time in West Texas).

In 2021, Justin Sun paid $28 million to be Blue Origin's first commercial passenger. However, scheduling conflicts delayed his trip. On Aug. 3, Sun finally