Saturday Night Live star Pete Davidson will not fly into space as previously announced.
Davidson was scheduled to fly into space on March 23 aboard the New Shepard, a vessel operated by Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin. However, a scheduling change appears to make that no longer viable.
“Blue Origin’s 20th flight of New Shepard has shifted to Tuesday, March 29. Pete Davidson is no longer able to join the NS-20 crew on this mission,” Blue Origin said in a tweet.
The company did not say why it rescheduled, although flight changes are not uncommon due to weather and atmospheric conditions. Blue Origin did say that it would announce its sixth replacement member soon.
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Davidson would have joined five others, including Party America CEO Marty Allen, real estate mogul Marc Hagle and his wife, Sharon, University of North Carolina professor Jim Kitchen, and George Nield, the former manager of NASA’s Flight Integration Office.
The flight, also known as NS-20, will be the first Blue Origin flight of 2022.
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 was on Dec. 9, 2021.
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Private space flight sales have increased significantly in recent months. Virgin Galactic offered customers a limited-time chance in February to buy seats aboard its spacecraft at $450,000 per ticket. SpaceX also sold three flights to Shift4 billionaire Jared Isaacman.
