{"id":2179,"date":"2021-07-15T21:36:55","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T19:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/15\/winner-who-paid-30m-for-space-flight-with-bezos-drops-plan-due-to-scheduling-conflicts\/"},"modified":"2021-07-15T21:36:55","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T19:36:55","slug":"winner-who-paid-30m-for-space-flight-with-bezos-drops-plan-due-to-scheduling-conflicts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/15\/winner-who-paid-30m-for-space-flight-with-bezos-drops-plan-due-to-scheduling-conflicts\/","title":{"rendered":"Winner who paid $30m for space flight with Bezos drops plan due to \u2018scheduling conflicts\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anonymous person will be replaced by 18-year-old recent high school graduate on New Shepard spacecraft<\/p>\n<p>The anonymous winner of a ticket to join billionaire Jeff Bezos in space next week will no longer board the New Shepard spacecraft due to \u201cscheduling conflicts\u201d, Bezos\u2019s Blue Origin company announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The winner, who paid $29.7m in a bid to join one of the world\u2019s richest men in space, will instead be replaced by Oliver Daemen, a recent high school graduate. The 18-year old took a gap year in 2020 to obtain his private pilot\u2019s license and plans to study physics and innovation management at the Netherlands-based University of Utrecht in September.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/jul\/15\/jeff-bezos-space-flight-guest-new-shepard\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/332baa8afa46c6ce4696dcf8171f882514ff7f14\/0_238_3290_1975\/master\/3290.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=f9789a8aa3545c1674dd54c1cd099e49\" title=\"Winner who paid $30m for space flight with Bezos drops plan due to \u2018scheduling conflicts\u2019\" \/>Anonymous person will be replaced by 18-year-old recent high school graduate on New Shepard spacecraft<br \/>\nThe anonymous winner of a ticket to join billionaire Jeff Bezos in space next week will no longer board the New Shepard spacecraft due to \u201cscheduling conflicts\u201d, Bezos\u2019s Blue Origin company announced Thursday.<br \/>\nThe winner, who paid $29.7m in a bid to join one of the world\u2019s richest men in space, will instead be replaced by Oliver Daemen, a recent high school graduate. The 18-year old took a gap year in 2020 to obtain his private pilot\u2019s license and plans to study physics and innovation management at the Netherlands-based University of Utrecht in September. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anonymous person will be replaced by 18-year-old recent high school graduate on New Shepard spacecraft The anonymous winner of a ticket to join billionaire Jeff Bezos in space next week will no longer board the New Shepard spacecraft due to \u201cscheduling conflicts\u201d, Bezos\u2019s Blue Origin company announced Thursday. The winner, who paid $29.7m in a &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/15\/winner-who-paid-30m-for-space-flight-with-bezos-drops-plan-due-to-scheduling-conflicts\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Winner who paid $30m for space flight with Bezos drops plan due to \u2018scheduling conflicts\u2019<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}