the capsule coast to an altitude above 62 miles regarded by many as the boundary of outer space the capsules landing is slowed by a parachuteon this first flight there will be four people aboard mr daemen mr bezos mr bezos brother mark and mary wallace funk a pilot who in the 1960s was among a group of women who passed the same rigorous criteria that nasa used for selecting astronauts but that was at a time when the space agency had no interest in selecting women as astronautsat 18 mr daemen will be the youngest person ever to go to space at 82 ms funk who goes by wally will be the oldestaccording to the familys news release mr daemen and his father joes daemen founder of somerset capital partners in the netherlands were intrigued by the possibility of getting on the flight but when the bids started to skyrocket during the auction we dropped out joes daemen saidblue origin did not reveal how much the daemens were paying for the seat it has not yet publicly announced a price for tickets according to the daemens the price is a lot lower than the 28 million winning bid the money they paid will be donated by blue origin to a charity that has not yet been determinedon wednesday blue origin announced that 19 million from the 28 million winning bid will go to 19 spacerelated nonprofit organizations 1 million each the recipients include astrafemina a collective of women in science and engineering who aim to serve as role models to girls the brook owens fellowship which offers paid internships and fellowships to undergraduate women and higher orbits an experimental learning lab for high school studentskitty bennett contributed research and claire moses contributed translation