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Blue Origin, the aerospace company founded by Jeff Bezos, has broken four Guinness World Records titles with their successful first human flight to space that took place on 20 July 2021.
The mission took off from the company’s Launch Site One, near Van Horn, Texas, USA with four astronauts on board New Shepard, Blue Origin’s fully reusable suborbital spacecraft. The rocket is named after Alan Shepard, the first American in space.
Oliver Daemen (Netherlands) is the youngest person to go to space at the age of just 18 years 334 days.
He was the first customer on a Blue Origin flight. Oliver, who has been interested in aviation and spaceflight since he was very young, said the experience was "life-changing".
He currently attends the University of Utrecht studying study physics and innovation.
With Oliver on board, New Shepard became the first suborbital spacecraft to carry paying customers.
Designed to take astronauts and research payloads on an 11-minute journey to space at an altitude of 100 km or 62 miles, New Shepard first flew in April 2015.
As of August 2021, New Shepard has completed: