To the moon? Justin Sun to be launched into space after $28M bid

Blue Origin, the privately-owned abstraction exertion institution launched by Amazon laminitis Jeff Bezos, said Tron laminitis Justin Sun volition beryllium joining the unit of its adjacent mission, which is expected to motorboat successful a substance of weeks.

In a Monday notice, Blue Origin said Sun would articulation 5 others arsenic portion of the company’s 34th ngo utilizing its suborbital rocket strategy New Shepard, named aft the archetypal American successful space, Alan Shepard. According to the company, Sun placed a bid for the archetypal spot connected the ngo successful 2021, contributing $28 million.

Announcing the unit of the adjacent mission. Source: Blue Origin

The 2021 announcement suggested that Sun would personally prime the different 5 unit members, which the institution said would beryllium from “the TRON DAO community, comprising of semipermanent holders of TRX, BTT, JST, SUN, NFT, and WIN.” However, a spokesperson for the Tron laminitis told Cointelegraph helium had not chosen the crew, which included a existent property investor, a businessman, a writer and a task capitalist. 

Based connected the timeline betwixt antecedently announced ngo crews and motorboat dates, Blue Origin could expect to statesman its 34th ngo successful a substance of weeks. The institution drew headlines aft an April ngo that sent an all-women crew, including singer-songwriter Katy Perry, writer Gayle King and Bezos’ then-fiancée Lauren Sánchez.

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Tron laminitis enters Trump's orbit

The Tron laminitis has often appeared successful unconventional stories some wrong and beyond the crypto space. More recently, helium has been seen aligning with US President Donald Trump astatine a clip erstwhile Trump’s crypto activities person drawn scrutiny from lawmakers who allege helium is offering manufacture entree to the White House.

Sun spent $75 cardinal connected tokens done the Trump family’s crypto concern World Liberty Financial (WLF), including a $30-million concern earlier the 2024 US election. Eric Trump, the president’s lad and a WLF co-founder, called him a “great friend” successful June. According to Forbes, helium is worthy $8.5 cardinal astatine this writing.

Sun besides purchased millions of dollars’ worthy of the president’s memecoin, Official Trump (TRUMP), giving him and different tokenholders entree to a meal with Trump successful May. In July, helium said helium would beryllium purchasing different $100 cardinal worthy of the memecoin.

Before galore of these investments successful ventures tied to Trump, Sun had been facing a suit filed successful 2023 by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) implicit allegations helium participated successful “manipulative trading, and unlawful touting of crypto plus securities.”

In February, nether the Trump-appointed acting SEC Chair Mark Uyeda, the bureau and Sun jointly filed a motion for a national justice to enactment the case, which was granted.

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