The mission is the 14th human flight for New Shepard and the 34th in its history overall. The spacecraft will liftoff from a Texas launch site early Sunday morning.

A Blue Origin rocket launched cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun and five others on a trip to the edge of space and back.

Jeff Bezos ' aerospace company announced on Wednesday (July 30) that it's targeting Sunday (Aug. 3) for the flight, which is called NS-34 because it's the 34th overall mission for Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital vehicle.