Pete Davidson will see more stars than he did at the Met Gala.
Angela Weiss / AFP via Getty ImagesSNL star and Kardashian boyfriend Pete Davidson is heading to space.
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin announced Monday that the comedian is set to join five others on the space company’s fourth crewed flight to the edge of space, currently set for March 23.
Davidson will join the ranks of media host Michael Strahan, actor William Shatner and aviation pioneer Wally Funk as the latest celebrity civilian astronauts given a seat on a New Shepard rocket to help build the hype around Bezos’ space tourism project.
Joining Davidson on the flight will be investor and former Party America CEO Marty Allen, real estate executive Marc Hagle and wife Sharon Hagle, who founded SpaceKids Global. Also on board will be George Nield, former associate administrator for the Federal Aviation Administration Office of Commercial Space Transportation, and entrepreneur Jim Kitchen
What’s not clear is whether Bezos’ snagging Davidson for his next flight is meant as a dig at SpaceX founder Elon Musk. Davidson’s doltish SNL character Chad took a turn as a SpaceX astronaut on Mars when Musk hosted the show last year.
One person who might be happy to see Davidson blasted into space is Kanye West, Kim Kardashian’s ex who has been harassing Davidson since he began dating Kardashian.
West will be disappointed to learn that Davidson will be off the planet for less than 15 minutes. The New Shepard will blast off and send the crew capsule past the edge of space for a few minutes of weightlessness before it returns to the west Texas desert for a soft, parachute-assisted landing.
Blue Origin plans to stream the adventure beginning an hour before launch that is currently targeted for 6:30 a.m. PT/8:30 a.m. CT on March 23. We’ll embed the feed here when it becomes available.
