A bunch of six , including Pete Davidson of Saturday Night Live , will seek to hazard past the Kármán line on March 23 aboard a Blue Origin rocket engine .
The comedian and actor will travel to space with Marty Allen , Sharon and Marc Hagle , Jim Kitchen , and George Nield . Designated NS-20 , the Blue Origin delegation will be the quaternary human flight of steps for the Jeff Bezos - led company . The crew is countersink to launch from Launch Site One in west Texas on March 23 at 9:30 a.m. EDT .
NS-20 will be the first flight of steps of a Blue Origin New Shepard suborbital spacecraft since December 9 , 2021 . Blue OriginsentStar Trek ’s William Shatner to space on October 13 , 2021 , and Bezos himself made thetrekon July 20 , 2021 . Like Shatner , Davidson “ is an honorary invitee , ” a Blue Origin interpreter told me in an e-mail . “ Everyone else is a paying customer , ” they said , tot that Blue Origin is “ not sharing details about pricing . ”
Pete DavidsonPhoto: Mary Altaffer (AP)
Indeed , Blue Origin has been close - lipped about the cost per rear , but as a comparability , just the ticket for Virgin Galactic flight are areported$450,000 a popping .
The NS-20 delegation will see Davidson and the other passengers go to beyond the Kármán line , the internationally recognized bound of space , 62 mile ( 100 kilometre ) above sea level . The whole thing lasts for slimly longer than 10 proceedings , and passenger will be able to drift in microgravity for a few bit before having to sputter back to their seats for the reentry and parachute - assisted landing place .
Davidson , a dramatis personae member of Saturday Night Live , starred in the 2020 semi - autobiographical plastic film The King of Staten Island and is currentlydatingKim Kardashian . Marty Allen is a turnaround CEO and angel investor , Sharon Hagle is the founder of SpaceKids Global , and her married man , Marc Hagle , is the president and CEO of Tricor International . Jim Kitchen is a teacher and enterpriser , and George Nield is the president of Commercial Space Technologies .
The NS-20 crew.Image: Blue Origin
digit crossed that the missionary station go well , and that Davidson — unlike Bezos — won’t be fit with a spacesuit that does n’t fit his genitalia .
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