Chennai, July 23 -- Blue Origin, the American aerospace company founded by Jeff Bezos, has announced the crew for its upcoming space tourism mission, NS-34.

Among the six passengers is Arvinder (Arvi) Singh Bahal, an India-born American real estate investor.

Arvi is a real estate investor born in Agra, India, and now a naturalized US citizen.

A lifelong traveller and adventurer, Arvi has visited many countries in the world, the North and South Poles, and skydived Mount Everest and the Pyramids of Giza. He holds a private pilot's license and also flies helicopters.

Joining Bahal on this suborbital flight aboard the New Shepard spacecraft are: Gokhan Erdem, a businessman from Turkey; Deborah Martorell, an award-winning meteorologist an...