SNL star Pete Davidson will join a crew of six and fly into outer space.
Davidson, 28, will be one of six passengers aboard a March 23 flight with Blue Origin, the private spaceflight company founded by Jeff Bezos.
He will be joined by Party America CEO Marty Allen; real estate mogul Marc Hagle and his wife Sharon; University of North Carolina professor Jim Kitchen; and Dr. George Nield, the former manager of NASA's Flight Integration Office. Davidson will be"an honorary guest," a Blue Origin spokesperson told Gizmodo. Everyone else paid for their flight, although the company did not disclose the price for the flights.
Davidson's flight, also known as NS-20, will be the first Blue Origin flight of 2022 and the fourth crewed flight by New Shepard. The spaceflight company sent its first flight up on July 20, 2021, with Bezos aboard. The second flew on Oct. 13 and had Star Trek's William Shatner aboard. The last Blue Origin flight that went up was on Dec. 9, 2021.Private space flight sales have increased significantly in recent months. Virgin Galactic offered customers a limited-time chance in February to buy a ticket aboard their spacecraft at a $450,000 ticket price.
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