Saturday Night Live comedian Pete Davidson headed to space on Blue Origin craft
- The launch is scheduled for March 23 and Davidson will be the third celebrity on a Blue Origin flight after Star Trek actor William Shatner and NFL star Michael Strahan
- Blue Origin flights give passengers a few minutes of weightlessness above the Earth’s surface before the capsule parachutes and lands in the West Texas desert
Saturday Night Live star Pete Davidson is among the six passengers on the next launch of Jeff Bezos’ space travel venture Blue Origin, the company announced on Monday.
The launch is scheduled for March 23 and Davidson will be the third celebrity on a Blue Origin flight. Star Trek actor William Shatner was on a flight in October, blasting off from West Texas and reaching a height of roughly 66 miles above Earth on the 10-minute jaunt.
Former NFL great and Good Morning America co-host Michael Strahan flew on Blue Origin’s second passenger flight in December, joining astronaut Alan Shepard’s daughter on the journey. Bezos, the founder of Amazon, flew on the company’s first passenger flight last July.
The other passengers on next week’s flight are CEO and investor Marty Allen; Sharon and Marc Hagle; teacher and entrepreneur Jim Kitchen and George Nield, a former Nasa manager who has worked to promote commercial space flight.
Marc Hagle is the CEO of the commercial and residential property company Tricor International. His wife, Sharon Hagle, founded SpaceKids Global, a non-profit aimed at inspiring children about space flight.