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Justin Sun (right) was named Grenada’s permanent representative to the WTO earlier this month. He disclosed Dec. 22 he submitted the high bid for a seat on the first crewed New Shepard flight in a June auction and, after missing the flight, will go to space in late 2022.

A controversial Chinese cryptocurrency entrepreneur revealed he submitted the high bid for a seat on Blue Origin’s first crewed suborbital launch earlier this year and, after missing that flight, is buying a dedicated New Shepard flight in 2022.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...