Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin space tourism service has postponed until March 29 a flight initially set for next week, while 'Saturday Night Live' comic Pete Davidson will not be a passenger on the launch, the company said on Thursday.
FILE PHOTO - A helicopter flies over a building featuring Blue Origin's logo as rocket New Shepard is prepared for the NS-18 suborbital flight mission carrying Star Trek actor William Shatner as part of a four-person crew near Van Horn, Texas, U.S., October 13, 2021.
Davidson, 28, the boyfriend of reality TV star and socialite Kim Kardashian, had just been officially named on Monday as Blue Origin's "honorary guest" to join five paying customers on the flight initially set for March 23.With "Davidson no longer able to join" the new flight, Blue Origin said it would announce the sixth crew member "in the coming days."
Like the first three groups of Blue Origin passengers, they will ride to the edge on a six-story-tall, fully autonomous spacecraft called the New Shepard, which will lift off from Blue Origin's launch site near the rural west Texas town of Van Horn. Bezos, the billionaire founder of online retail giant Amazon tagged along himself on Blue Origin's inaugural crewed flight to space last July.
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