Will Justin Sun be able to launch tonight on a Blue Origin spacecraft, fulfilling his $28 million dream of space travel?
Tonight at 8:34 PM, TRON founder Justin Sun will embark on a space journey aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard spacecraft. The NS-34 mission will lift off from a launch site in Texas, USA, and the launch will be livestreamed on Blue Origin's official website.
Justin Sun's dream of space travel dates back to 2021, when he paid a staggering $28 million (approximately 200 million RMB) for a seat on Blue Origin's first crewed flight, setting a record for the highest bid for private space travel.
However, due to a schedule conflict, he was unable to participate in the inaugural flight on July 20, 2021. The NS-34 mission marks a possible fulfillment of Sun's promise made four years ago to complete this spaceflight experience. Notably, Justin Sun has donated all of his bid proceeds to Blue Origin's "Future Club" foundation to support STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education for young people worldwide.
The NS-34 mission, Blue Origin's 14th manned flight, is expected to last approximately 10 minutes. Passengers will cross the Kármán line (100 kilometers above sea level), experience several minutes of weightlessness, and overlook the Earth's curve.
However, whether Justin Sun will be able to reach space as scheduled remains uncertain. This crypto entrepreneur, known for his marketing hype, has a poor record of delivering on his promises, from his Tron "super community" ecosystem project being exposed as a Ponzi scheme and absconding with the funds, to his sudden cancellation of a bid for a pricey lunch with Warren Buffett, to numerous highly publicized but ultimately unsuccessful business ventures.
Whether this crypto entrepreneur, a master of traffic, will once again withdraw from a mission due to "unexpected health issues," "schedule conflicts," or other unexpected reasons will be a more compelling question than the launch itself. After all, in his marketing history, creating suspense often generates more buzz than delivering on his promises.
The Wall Street Journal once commented: "Justin Sun's marketing model = high-profile promises + dramatic delays + ambiguous endings."
If there are further setbacks during this space flight, it will likely only further solidify his reputation as the "cryptocurrency world's Jia Yueting."Do you think he can break the "Ace Pigeon" curse this time?