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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 LIMITED OFFER for CryptoPotato readers at Bybit: Use this link<\/a> to register and open a $500 FREE position on any coin!<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nFrom Sculpture Disputes to Eating a $5M Banana<\/h2>\n
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