Blue Origin’s three pre-crewed flights have sent familiar faces and known people in their fields to space. Those include William Shatner, aviation pioneer Wally Funk, Good Morning America host Michael Strahan and even company founder Jeff Bezos For its fourth mission with humans on board – and 20th overall – one of the passengers was should be Pete Davidson, SNL star and well, who recently received Kanye West’s I. Turns out that won’t happen.
On Twitter, the aerospace company announced that Davidson will no longer join the mission as a crew member. Blue Origin does not reveal why he is no longer flying with other members of the crew to the edge of space and only says that the mission will launch on March 29 instead of March 23 as planned. plan. Davidson was recently seen filming for the horror movie House, but it’s unclear if the scheduling conflict was the reason for Blue Origin’s roster change. At this point, it is unknown if Davidson will join another Blue Origin flight later.
Other passengers for the NS-20 mission are SpaceKids Global founder Sharon Hagle and her husband Marc Hagle, University of North Carolina professor Jim Kitchen, Commercial Space Technology Chair, Dr. George C. Nield and Dr. Marty Allen, former CEO of Party America. Blue Origin says it will announce a replacement for the Davidson in the coming days.
Blue Origin’s 20th flight to New Shepard has moved to Tuesday, March 29. Pete Davidson can no longer join the NS-20 crew on this mission. We will be announcing the sixth crew member in the coming days.
– Blue Origin (@blueorigin) March 18, 2022
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