Who is Sylvain Chiron, who flew into house this Sunday? | EUROtoday

SSylvain Chiron, a 52-year-old French entrepreneur, is the twelfth Frenchman to enter house. After Thomas Pesquet or the Franco-Italian Ketty Maisonrouge, who had made an identical journey in 2023 with the corporate Virgin Galactic, the businessman, obsessed with aeronautics, flew this Sunday from Texas aboard the New Shepard rocket from Blue Origin, billionaire Jeff Bezos' house firm. The launch, which was scheduled for 4:52 p.m. French time, permits this fifty-year-old from Chambéry to stay his “childhood dream”.

Although sightseeing flights aboard Blue Origin's small rockets solely final about ten minutes, they permit their passengers to briefly float and admire the curvature of the Earth above the Karman line. , this restrict which marks the border with house at 100 km altitude.

Founder of the Brasserie du Mont-Blanc

While he was initially scheduled to take off on April 11 for a flight time estimated at 11 minutes, Sylvain Chiron needed to be affected person after it was as soon as once more canceled. Originally from Savoy, Sylvain Chiron, who deliberate to take a flag from his area into house, has been immersed on the earth of aeronautics since his childhood. The man who as soon as dreamed of being an astronaut lastly turned to enterprise research within the United States, after acquiring his personal pilot's license at 16. Founder of the Mont-Blanc Brasserie, it has since grow to be one of many largest in France with a turnover of round 30 million euros. Its acquisition in September 2023 by the Belgian group Duvel Moortgat ought to enable the corporate to proceed to increase.

READ ALSO Ariane 5: “It’s a symbolic launch for the history of the rocket” If the quantity paid for his ticket to house stays secret, the chance given to Sylvain Chiron stays uncommon. In truth, solely eleven French individuals have already had the prospect to go there. If the astronaut for a day assures that the corporate Blue Origin obtained a number of thousand purposes, his software would have been accepted in line with him due to his “devouring passion for space”.