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On August 3, 2025, Sun Yuchen completed a suborbital flight on Blue Origin's "New Shepard" rocket (NS-34 mission). The entire flight took about 10 minutes from launch in Texas, USA to landing.
20:30 Ignition and launch
20:33 Crossed the Kármán line (space boundary) at an altitude of 100 kilometers
20:34–20:38 Experienced about 4 minutes of weightlessness
20:41 Returned to Earth and landed.
Costs and Background
Sun Yuchen won the first seat for this flight by bidding $28 million (approximately 200 million RMB) in June 2021. He was originally scheduled to participate in Blue Origin's first crewed flight on July 20, 2021, but it was postponed to August 2025.
This flight marks Blue Origin's 14th crewed mission, cumulatively sending 75 people into space. Sun Yuchen, as a representative figure in the cryptocurrency field (founder of TRON, advisor to HTX exchange), continues the trend of wealthy individuals from the crypto community participating in space travel (previously, Wang Chun completed an orbital flight).
Sun Yuchen remarked after the flight: "I waited four years for this moment, thank you to the Bezos team for making dreams come true," and revealed future plans that include Mars exploration and a private space station.
Fellow passengers: Including an Indian real estate developer, a Turkish businessman, a British philanthropist, and 3 others.