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FILE PHOTO: An interior view of the Blue Origin Crew Capsule mockup at the 33rd Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States April 5, 2017. REUTERS\/Isaiah J. Downing\/File Photo<\/figcaption>

(Reuters) – An 18-year-old physics student whose father heads an investment management firm is set to take the place of a person who put up $28 million in an auction to take part in the inaugural space tourism flight for billionaire Jeff Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin company.<\/p>\n

Blue Origin said on Thursday Oliver Daemen will join the four-member all-civilian crew for Tuesday\u2019s scheduled flight after the auction winner, whose name had not been made public, dropped out due to unspecified \u201cscheduling conflicts.\u201d Daemen becomes the company\u2019s first paying customer.<\/p>\n

His addition means that the flight is set to include the oldest person ever to go to space – 82-year-old trailblazing female aviator Wally Funk – and the youngest, Daemen, according to Blue Origin. Joining them for Blue Origin\u2019s suborbital launch will be Bezos and his brother Mark Bezos.<\/p>\n

Daemen is working to obtain his pilot\u2019s license and is set to attend the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands to study physics and innovation management in September, Blue Origin said. His father is Somerset Capital Partners CEO and founder Joes Daemen.<\/p>\n

The elder Daemen \u201cpaid for the seat and chose to fly Oliver,\u201d Blue Origin said. The company declined to say how much was paid.<\/p>\n

\u201cFlying on New Shepard will fulfill a lifelong dream for Oliver, who has been fascinated by space, the Moon, and rockets since he was four,\u201d the company said in a news release.<\/p>\n

Bezos has been locked in a race with billionaire rivals Richard Branson and Elon Musk as they seek to usher in a new era of commercial space travel in a tourism market that Swiss bank UBS estimates could be worth $3 billion annually in a decade.<\/p>\n

New Shepard is a 60-foot-tall (18.3-meters-tall) and fully autonomous rocket-and-capsule combo that cannot be piloted from inside the spacecraft. The launch is set for a site in West Texas.<\/p>\n

Branson, the British billionaire businessman, was aboard his company Virgin Galactic\u2019s rocket plane for its pioneering suborbital flight from New Mexico on Sunday.<\/p>\n

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