Kent-based Blue Origin successfully completed its 14th human spaceflight and the 34th flight for the New Shepard program on Aug. 3 in West Texas.

New Shepard has flown 75 people into space, including five people who have flown twice, according to a Blue Origin email.

The crew:

• Justin Sun, a cryptocurrency billionaire. Sun, born in China, in 2021 placed the winning bid for the first seat on New Shepard but wasn’t able to fly at the time. The $28 million in proceeds from the bid were donated to Blue Origin’s foundation, Club for the Future, according to the company.

• Arvinder Singh Bahal, a real estate investor born in India and now a naturalized U.S. citizen

• Gökhan Erdem, a Turkish businessman

• Deborah Martorell, a Puerto Rican meteorologist and journalist

• Lionel Pitchford, a

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