Saturday Night Live star Pete Davidson is back in the news, but this time it’s out of this world. The 28-year-old comic is heading to space aboard the upcoming Blue Origin mission on March 23rd.
Blue Origin, the space exploration company founded by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, will also send to the rocket Marty Allen, husband and wife duo Sharon and Marc Hagle, Jim Kitchen and George Nield.
Davidson joined “Saturday Night Live” in 2014. He also wrote and starred in “The King of Staten Island” directed by Judd Apatow. She recently made headlines to date Kim Kardashian. The couple has gained widespread attention on social media and entertainment news recently after Kardashian’s estranged husband Kanye West harshly criticized the couple on social media.
Allen is an investor who is the former CEO of Party America, a retail chain and former CEO of California Closet Company.
Sharon Hagel founded SpaceKids Global in 2015, a non-profit organization that aims to inspire students and empower girls to excel in STEAM + education. Her husband, Marc Hagle, is president and CEO of Tricor International, a residential and commercial property development corporation.
Jim Kitchen is a professor and entrepreneur who has visited all 193 UN-recognized countries and has been dreaming of space since he was a child watching the launch of NASA’s Apollo rocket in Florida.
George Nield is the President and Founder of Commercial Space Technologies, which aims to encourage, facilitate and promote commercial space activities. He has also served as the Office of Flight Integration Manager for NASA’s space shuttle program.
This is the fourth human flight on the New Shepard program, which was first carried by Bezos, his brother Mark, 82-year-old aviation pioneer Wally Funk and 18-year-old Oliver Daemen. in space in July 2021. Daemen became the youngest person to go into space, and Funk was the oldest, until a later flight of Blue Origin took a 90-year-old actor. William Shatner in space.
of Shatner October 2021 flight he had three more on board.
Another notable celebrity also took the opportunity to bring one of the Blue Origin flights into space. Michael Strahan and five others took a flight in December 2021.
According to a press release, the March 23 launch has an 8:30 am CDT takeoff target from Launch Site One in West Texas.
“Every astronaut aboard the NS-20 will carry a postcard into space on behalf of the Blue Origin Foundation, Club for the Future, the postcard program in space allows students access to space on rockets of Blue Origin, “the statement said. “The Club’s mission is to inspire future generations to pursue STEM careers for the benefit of the Earth.”
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