The “King of Staten Island” won’t be invading space just yet.
“Saturday Night Live” star Pete Davidson was slated to blast off with Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin next Wednesday, but will no longer be able to make the flight due to the company bumping the date.
“Blue Origin’s 20th flight of New Shepard has shifted to March 29. Pete Davidson is no longer able to join the NS-20 crew on this mission,” the company said in a tweet late Thursday. “We will announce the sixth crew member in the coming days.”
The 28-year-old comedian was set to fly to the edge of space alongside Party America CEO Marty Allen, SpaceKids Global founder Sharon Hagle, her real estate mogul husband, Mark Haglel, University of North Carolina professor Jim Kitchen, and Dr. George Nield, the president of Commercial Space Technologies and former manager of the Flight Integration Office for NASA’s space shuttle program.
Davidson, who joined the “SNL” cast in 2014, was selected as an “honorary guest” for the flight, a Blue Origin spokesperson previously told the New York Times. The other passengers paid for their seats, though how much they each shelled out is unclear.
Davidson would not have been the first celebrity to travel out of this world. He would’ve followed in the footsteps of “Good Morning America” host Michael Strahan and 90-year-old “Star Trek” star William Shatner, who became the oldest person to reach space after his October flight.
Last year, Blue Origin’s space tourism rocket took off on its debut commercial flight with Bezos, his brother Mark Bezos, Wally Funk, a heroine within the space community, and a paying customer all as passengers.
The upcoming flight will mark the fourth human flight and 20th flight overall for the New Shepard program.
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