Eighteen-year-old Dutchman Oliver Daemen will be allowed to go into space next week with Jeff Bezos, the richest person on our planet, on a commercial flight. It is the first manned flight from Bezos’ space company, Blue Origin. That company announced the name of Daemen on Thursday.
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When the craft leaves the atmosphere, Daemen will be the youngest astronaut ever. He is also the fourth born Dutchman to ever have been in space, after Lodewijk van den Berg, Wubbo Ockels and André Kuipers.
Also on board is, in addition to Jeff Bezos’ brother Mark, Wally Funk. At 82 years old, she becomes the oldest human ever in space.
The launch is scheduled for next Tuesday.
The flight, which starts in Texas, lasts about half an hour and takes the space tourists to the edge of space where they are weightless for about three minutes before returning their capsule to ground level.
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