Pete Davidson, the SNL comedian and actor, will no longer travel to the edge of space on the next Blue Origin spaceflight, the company said late Thursday.
The company had announced this week that it would launch on March 23, with Mr. Davidson and five other passengers. Blue Origin said that the launch has been changed to March 29th.
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. We will announce the sixth crew member in the coming days.
— Blue Origin (@blueorigin) March 18, 2022
The company founded by Jeff Bezos said that Mr. Davidson was no longer able to join the mission and that a replacement would be announced soon. There was no further information given.
Requests for comment from Blue Origin and Mr. Davidson were not immediately returned. SNL will not be airing new episodes this week or next, according to a spokeswoman.
A Blue Origin spokeswoman said this week that Mr. Davidson would fly as an honorary guest, while the other five passengers were paying customers. They are identified as Marty Allen, Sharon and Marc Hagle, Jim Kitchen and George Nield.
While the members of the group come from a variety of background, it is not clear how much they were charged to join the flight.
Mr. Allen was the chief executive of Party America. Mr. Hagle is the president and chief executive of Tricor International. SpaceKids Global was founded by Ms. Hagle. Mr. Kitchen is a professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The associate administrator for commercial space transportation at the Federal Aviation Administration was the president of Commercial Space Technologies.
It is not clear if Blue Origin will pick another celebrity to take Mr. Davidson's seat.
The company has flown with human passengers 20 times in its history.
William Shatner was the oldest person to travel to space and cross the Karman line when he was on a Blue Origin flight last fall. The New Shepard rocket carried Mr. Shatner, three other passengers and a pilot.
In December, Michael Strahan, who co-hosted Good Morning America, was on a flight with a few others.
It's like the feeling of weightlessness when the booster goes off, and you don't know what's going to happen.
When I got married and had kids, my wife encouraged that it was not a smart thing to do.
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