Blue Origin flight to rocket youngest person ever into space

An 18-year-old is poised to become the youngest person in space after Blue Origin said that Oliver Daemen will be launching with founder Jeff Bezos on Tuesday.

An 18-year-old is about to become the youngest person in space, rocketing away with an aviation pioneer who will become the oldest at age 82. Blue Origin announced Thursday that instead of an auction winner launching with founder Jeff Bezos on Tuesday, Oliver Daemen will be on board. The company said he’ll be the first paying customer, but did not disclose the cost of his ticket. Also soaring on Blue Origin’s first launch with passengers: Bezos’s brother and Wally Funk, one of 13 female pilots who went through the same training in the early 1960s as NASA’s Mercury 7 astronauts did, but were rejected for being women.