Pete Davidson , Saturday Night Live star and freshly find scourge of Kanye West , will be blasted into space afterwards this calendar month by Jeff Bezos ’ space tourism venture Blue Origin .
Blue Originannouncedtoday the gang flying on its approaching NS-20 flight , set to take off from Launch Site One in West Texas on March 23.The comedian will be joined by five other crew members : Marty Allen , husband and married woman duo Sharon and Marc Hagle , Jim Kitchen , and Dr George Nield .
Blue Origin hold on hushed about the price for a ticket to fly on New Shepard ( it’slikelyto be in the millions of dollar sign ) but Davidson is reportedly flying for free as “ an honorary client , ” grant toGizmodo .
This will be Blue Origin ’s fourth human suborbital flight . Their first human escape rocket off in July 2021 , with Blue Origin and Amazon founding father Jeff Bezos onboard alongside his brother , pluslegendary airman Wally Funk . Since then , a phone number of self-aggrandising names have joined their membership , including Captain Kirk himself : William Shatner .
The flight of steps will last around 11 minutes . Onboard a New Shepard launch vehicle , the gang will travel over three time the speed of audio to pass the Kármán Line at 100 kilometers ( 62 knot ) above Earth ’s surface , where it will depart from the reusable rocket and float weightless for several bit . The gang will descend back to Earth with the help of a chute attach to their fomite , while the rocket will return to the soil with a vertical landing place .
Davidson has made the headlines with various highly publicized Romance language , but he initially rose to fame for his work as a comedian on the US later - night show SNL . In a bizarre moment of graphics imitating life , Davidson ’s character Chad played the role of a SpaceX cosmonaut on Mars when Elon Musk host the show in May 2021 .
Unfortunately for Chad , this fictional blank space foreign mission finish with a disastrous depressurization stroke and an exploding skull . Here ’s hoping this calendar month ’s Blue Origin mission goes a little more swimmingly .
