Who are the five millionaire businessmen who will travel with Jesús Calleja to space?

Technology has allowed humans to access unique areas, activities or experiences that previously seemed impossible. Travelling to space no longer seems so remote and little by little we are learning that there are companies that are looking to turn this into a business.

Of the most notable, Blue Origin , owned by Jeff Bezos and founder of the e-commerce Amazon , is one of the most famous. This Tuesday, Jesús Calleja will travel in one of its ships to go beyond the so-called Kármán line, the so-called space horizon. This project seeks to allow people who are not astronauts to go into space and enjoy this new type of tourism.

Adventurer and presenter Jesús Calleja is about to make history by becoming the first Spanish space tourist. His trip will take place aboard the New Shepard rocket, developed by the company Blue Origin , and the launch is scheduled for February 25, 2025. Accompanying him on this unique experience will be five other crew members with very varied profiles, from businessmen to scientists.

Lane Bess is an investor, entrepreneur, and founder of Bess Ventures and Advisory, an investment fund focused on developing technology companies. This is not the first time Bess has left Earth, as in December 2021 he participated in Blue Origin's NS-19 voyage, becoming one of the first tourists to experience weightlessness aboard the New Shepard.

The entrepreneur, pilot and physicist Elaine Chia Hyde owes her fame to the media field, where she specialized in Artificial Intelligence. She is the founder of the Chicago Star and Eastside Enterprise, both focused on new information technologies. She currently lives in Florida with her husband and five children.

The crew will also include Dr. Richard Scott , a renowned endocrinologist and embryologist specializing in reproductive medicine. He is the founder of IVIRMA Global, one of the world's leading fertility clinic networks with a presence in ten countries.

Physics and finance expert Tushar Shah is a partner and co-director of research at a quantitative investment fund in New York. He graduated from MIT with a PhD in experimental high-energy particle physics, and his academic and professional career have made him a reference in the sector.

There is a sixth passenger , in addition to Calleja, who will accompany them in the capsule, but his identity has not been revealed by Blue Origin.

The suborbital flight will last approximately 10 to 12 minutes , allowing for three minutes of weightlessness and the observation of the curvature of the Earth from the capsule.