Tron founder Justin Sun will join the next Blue Origin crewed flight, the company announced Tuesday. He is the latest high-profile figure to board Jeff Bezos\u2019 New Shepard rocket.<\/p>\n
Sun won the first New Shepard seat in a 2021 auction with a $28 million bid that funded 19 space-focused charities, but couldn\u2019t attend the July 2021 flight due to a scheduling conflict.<\/p>\n
He will fly alongside real estate investor Arvi Bahal, Turkish businessman G\u00f6khan Erdem, Puerto Rican meteorologist Deborah Martorell, UK-born nonprofit founder Lionel Pitchford, and venture capitalist J.D. Russell on the NS-34 mission.<\/p>\n
In its official press release, Blue Origin revealed<\/a> that this will be the 14th human flight for its New Shepard program and the 34th in its overall flight history, with the launch date to be announced.<\/p>\n The mission will add six more individuals to the 70 people Blue Origin has flown past the K\u00e1rm\u00e1n line, the internationally recognized boundary of space.<\/p>\n Sun was featured on Forbes\u2019 April 2025 cover as one of crypto\u2019s most outspoken figures. He joins a growing roster of entrepreneurs, philanthropists, and celebrities who have flown with Blue Origin, which has included William Shatner, Michael Strahan, Katy Perry, and Gayle King in previous missions.<\/p>\n Earlier this year, Sun filed<\/a> a lawsuit against music mogul David Geffen in Manhattan federal court to reclaim or receive up to $80 million in damages for an Alberto Giacometti sculpture he claims was stolen and sold without his consent.<\/p>\n The Tron founder alleged that a former aide, Xiong Zihan Sydney, forged documents and used a fake lawyer to execute the sale of the Le Nez sculpture, and swapped it for Geffen\u2019s art and cash worth around $65.5 million. Geffen\u2019s legal team, however, called the lawsuit \u201cbizarre and baseless,\u201d while rejecting Sun\u2019s claims and denying any wrongdoing in the dispute.<\/p>\n Last November, Sun bought<\/a> one of three limited edition rights to Maurizio Cattelan\u2019s Comedian \u2013 the 2019 artwork showing a banana duct-taped to a wall at a New York auction for $5.2 million. Not long after the purchase, he publicly ate the banana on stage.<\/p>\n He also pledged to buy 100,000 bananas from the New York street vendor who had initially provided the fruit for the artwork.<\/p>\n The post Tron\u2019s Justin Sun to Fly on Blue Origin\u2019s Next Crewed Mission<\/a> appeared first on CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tron founder Justin Sun will join the next Blue Origin crewed flight, the company announced Tuesday. He is the latest high-profile figure to board Jeff Bezos\u2019 New Shepard rocket. Sun won the first New Shepard seat in a 2021 auction with a $28 million bid that funded 19 space-focused charities, but couldn\u2019t attend the July […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":82980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/82980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}From Sculpture Disputes to Eating a $5M Banana<\/h2>\n