Justin Sun 8,000-word memoir of his space journey: What you want, you have to go get yourself.

According to Mars Finance, on January 23, Beijing Transcender Manned Space Technology Co., Ltd.'s "Transcender One (CYZ1)" is expected to achieve its first manned flight in 2028. Currently, there are over ten paying space tourists, with Chinese actor Huang Jingyu becoming the 009th. Regarding this first domestic spaceflight, some users inquired about the technical challenges and market prospects of "space travel." TRON founder Justin Sun provided his first answer to this question on Zhihu in an 8,000-word post. He stated that he himself completed a spaceflight aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard (NS-34 mission) on August 3, 2025. Regarding China's domestic commercial manned spacecraft program, he believes this signifies that space travel is gradually moving from "an experience for a few" to "a reality accessible to more people." When discussing market prospects, Justin Sun pointed out that in the short term, space tourism may still be seen as a "luxury" or a "gimmick," but if the industry can transform flight experience into manufacturing, operation and maintenance, talent, and standards systems, it is expected to expand to broader application scenarios such as microgravity experiments, materials and drug development, and payload testing in the future. He emphasized that safety and compliance are always the prerequisites. Justin Sun stated that he hopes China's commercial spaceflight will be both fast and stable, and called on the market to give more patience and understanding to engineering, experimentation, and failure analysis, in addition to focusing on ticket prices and buzz, to truly promote the sustainable development of space exploration. In the article, Justin Sun stated that his yearning for space stemmed from his childhood sense of belonging to deep space, and the launch of Shenzhou V in 2003 made him realize that "going to space" is not just science fiction, but a realistic path that can be achieved. After a long four-year wait after booking the flight, it finally took place on August 3, 2025. The author believes that this $28 million is not a transaction, but a "destined arrival." After experiencing pre-launch tension leading to frequent trips to the bathroom, weightlessness during the launch, and the challenges of a 5.5G overload during landing that caused facial distortion and difficulty breathing, he finally landed safely. He stated that space travel is not a romantic adventure, but a cold, realistic engineering marvel.