18-Year-Old to Fly on Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Rocket Will Be the Youngest Person to Travel to Space

Photo: Oliver Daemen/blue origin Jeff Bezos' aerospace company Blue Origins has announced its history-making first paying customer. Oliver Daemen, 18, will be the youngest person to travel to space after Blue Origins' first human flight on July 20. He will join Jeff Bezos, Mark Bezos, and pilot Wally Funk aboard the New Shepard rocket. Daemen’s father Joes Daemen, CEO of Dutch private equity firm Somerset Capital Partners, paid for the seat but chose to send his son instead, CNBCreported.

18-Year-Old Uses College Funds to Buy Restaurant Where She Started Out as Dishwasher

Photo: wsls 10 An 18-year-old in Ohio has become an entrepreneur after purchasing the restaurant she started working at as a teen. After enrolling at Ohio State University during the fall semester with plans to study environmental engineering, she learned that Rosalie’s owners were interested in selling the restaurant and decided to follow her instincts. “Right now, this is so new; this is my priority,” she told the outlet. “Five days of the week, I’m in here.

18-Year-Old Vanishes On Way to Meet Her Mom — 5 Years Later, a Suspect Is Charged

Photo: Missing Zoe Campos/Facebook It was five years ago this past Saturday that 18-year-old Zoe Campos vanished without a trace in Texas. On Friday, police in Lubbock announced a break in the case and filed a felony murder charge against 25-year-old Carlos Andrew Rodriquez. PEOPLE obtained the arrest warrant detailing the allegations against Rodriquez. The defendant is being held on $500,000 bond and is currently serving a four-year prison sentence following his recent conviction on stalking charges.

18-Year-Old Woman Rescued from Chimney After Getting Locked Out of Her Nevada Home

Firefighters rescuing the teen from the chimney.Photo: Henderson Fire DepartmentA Nevada teen’s attempt to get back into her locked house went terribly wrong this week after authorities say they had to rescue her from the chimney.The Henderson Fire Departmentconfirmed the incident in a post on Facebook, noting that the 18-year-old woman was successfully rescued from the chimney without any injuries.“Henderson firefighters are trained for confined space rescue and pulled the uninjured girl to safety in about half an hour,” they wrote in the post.

183 Passengers Freed After Being Trapped on Amtrak Train in Snowy Oregon for Nearly 40 Hours

Photo: Chris Pietsch/AP/REX/Shutterstock “It feels like a nightmare, honestly, because it took forever and yet it’s already over,” passenger Finn Friedmantold KOMO. “It just feels good that I’m not stuck anymore.” The 183 passengers had been stuck on Amtrak’s Coast Starlight since Sunday evening after a tree fell onto the tracks during a winter storm, halting the train’s journey from Los Angeles to Seattle, according to theAssociated Press. The passengers were kept on the train because of the town’s power outage, the AP reported.