Pete Davidson, an American comedian will be losing his privilege to join the next Blue Origin space flight. This is because the company has decided to extend the launch date for the flight by six days.
Pete Davidson Is No Longer Able To Join NS-20 Crew
Jeff Bezos’ company, Blue Origin, announced that the company’s rocket will launch to the space on the 23rd of March. However, a new launch date is 29th of March for the rocket’s launch. Jeff Bezos made this known in a tweet on Thursday.
“Blue Origin’s 20th flight of New Shepard has shifted to Tuesday, March 29. Pete Davidson is no longer able to join the NS-20 crew on this mission. We will announce the sixth crew member in the coming days,” the tweet said.
Pete Davidson will no longer travel to the edge of space on the next Blue Origin spaceflight. The “Saturday Night Live” comedian and actor is “no longer able to join” the mission, after it was rescheduled for later this month, the company said.https://t.co/3MxrxQL7XZ
— The New York Times (@nytimes) March 18, 2022
The flight planned to take five customers on board. George Nield, a former associate administrator for the Federal Aviation Administration Office of Commercial Space Transportation will be on board. Also, Allen, an investor and the former CEO of a party supply store will be on board. Marc Hagle, an Orlando real estate developer and his wife, Sharon Hagle, who founded a space-focused nonprofit will be on board.
After years of research and silent development, Blue Origin’s space tourism rocket worked with its crew to launch their first rocket with Bezos, accompanying him is the heroine of the space community, Wally Funk, his brother Mark Bezos and a customer on board.
Blue Origin Flight History
After the first successful launch of the rocket, Blue Origin was recognized for flying other celebrated fellows on two successive flight, the names include Star Trek star William Shatner and Good Morning America host Michael Strahan.
The goal of Blue Origin is to make these suborbital spaceflights a mainstay of pop culture, giving the customer a memorable, excellent, and standard experience on board, most of the Calibre of customers Blue Origin that has been flying onboard are mostly celebrities.
