You Won’t Believe Who Finally Rode Jeff Bezos’ Rocket. It’s Not What You Think!

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So, Justin Sun—the guy behind TRON, you know, crypto and all that stuff people pretend to understand—finally gets launched into space on a Blue Origin rocket. Three years after winning the ticket, by the way. Three years! That’s some serious delayed gratification. Most people can’t wait three days for a pizza delivery. 🍕🚀

Originally, Sun scored a seat on Jeff Bezos’ first party bus to space back in 2021. Classic move: buys the ticket, makes a big splash, and then bails last second. Like the guy who RSVPs to your wedding and never shows up. Very on brand. 🤷‍♂️

So this Sunday, what does he do? He finally cashes in. He hops onto this flying Amazon package with five other strangers—because that’s what you want sandwiched next to you at 3,000 miles per hour: a VC, a teacher, a weather person, and who knows, probably someone with a nut allergy. Bloomberg says it’s Blue Origin’s 14th human flight. Fourteenth! That’s more attempts than I gave at fixing my Wi-Fi last night. 🛰️

And get this: the $28 million he coughed up goes to some Blue Origin charity foundation. “Club for the Future.” It supports space-focused charities. I guess if aliens need tax deductions, they’re covered.

Blue Origin

Liftoff—7:42 a.m. local. Because that’s when billionaires like to party: at the crack of dawn, on a Sunday. Everyone gets to feel weightless for a few minutes, which, in crypto, is basically just checking your portfolio in 2022.

So it’s Sun, plus Arvi Bahal (he sells houses or buys houses, I don’t know), Gökhan Erdem (businessman—because you always need one), meteorologist/journalist Deborah Martorell (maybe she gave them a weather report, “Cloudy, with a chance of billionaires”), teacher Lionel Pitchford, and Alpha Funds founder J.D. Russell. Quite the brunch crowd.

Here’s the kicker: They only revealed Sun was going a few weeks before the flight! This guy kept his $28 million joyride secret for YEARS. Must be nice. Me, I can’t keep a donut in my fridge for 24 hours without telling everyone.

Apparently, pop stars and Bezos’ new wife have already done the trip. So Justin Sun waited all this time for, what, five minutes in space? At least he didn’t have to listen to Katy Perry the whole ride. 😂

Anyway, he finally gets his moment. Big milestone. He went up, came down—boom, space age, reinforced. And if you have $28 million lying around, you can too. If not, well, at least there’s Netflix.

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2025-08-03 22:05