Pete Davidson flies into space.
The Saturday Night Live star is among six passengers on the next launch of Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space enterprise, the company announced on Monday.
Scheduled to launch on March 23, Davidson will be the third celebrity on the Blue Origin flight. William Shatner flew in October, taking off from west Texas and reaching an altitude of about 66 miles above the Earth in a 10-minute walk.
Former NFL great player and Good Morning America co-host Michael Strahan flew on a second Blue Origin passenger flight in December, joining astronaut Alan Shepard’s daughter. Bezos, the founder of Amazon, took the company’s first passenger flight last July.
The other passengers on next week’s flight are CEO and investor Marty Allen; Sharon and Mark Hagle; teacher and entrepreneur Jim Kitchen; and George Neild, a former NASA manager who worked to promote commercial spaceflight.
Mark Heigl is the CEO of Tricor International, a commercial and residential real estate company. His wife, Sharon Heigl, founded SpaceKids Global, a non-profit organization dedicated to inspiring children to take flight into space.
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. The company did not disclose ticket prices for paying customers.
Davidson, who is dating reality TV star Kim Kardashian, wrote and starred in the semi-autobiographical film King of Staten Island, which was released in 2020.