The planned March 23 launch of the SNL actor and five other people has been delayed.
Actor Pete Davidson attending an event at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City on Sept. 13, 2021.The actor and"Saturday Night Live" star was scheduled to launch on March 23 aboard
, a suborbital rocket built by Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin. But Blue Origin has delayed the launch, which will carry five other passengers, to March 29 and Davidson can no longer make the flight. wrote in a statement late Thursday ."We will announce the sixth crew member in the coming days." Blue Origin did not state the cause of the New Shepard's launch delay.
All five of those passengers will still launch with Blue Origin. But with Davidson now unavailable, who their sixth crewmember will be remains to be seen. Blue Origin has launched a series of celebrities and high-profile passengers for free alongside paying passengers who bought tickets to ride on the New Shepard rocket.
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