Pete Davidson heading to space on Blue Origin’s fourth human flight

SNL star Pete Davidson will be one of six passengers aboard Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin flight, slated to launch next week.

Pete Davidson heading to space on Blue Origin’s fourth human flight.

Comedian Pete Davidson will be heading to outer space next week.

The 28-year-old Saturday Night Live star will be one of six passengers aboard on Blue Origin’s upcoming NS-20 flight.

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Actor/comedian Pete Davidson will be heading to space Picture: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images.

The mission marks the fourth human flight for the New Shepard program and the 20th in its history. Picture: Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP.

According to CNN, The King of Staten Island actor will be among five paying customers, including Marty Allen, an investor and the former CEO of a party supply store; Jim Kitchen, an entrepreneur and business professor; George Nield, a former associate administrator for the Federal Aviation Administration Office of Commercial Space Transportation; Marc Hagle, an Orlando real estate developer and his wife, Sharon Hagle, who founded a space-focused non-profit.

The mission marks the fourth human flight for the New Shepard program and the 20th in its history.

The funnyman’s launch is scheduled to take place March 23 in Texas, according to Blue Origin.

Davidson will be one of six passengers aboard on Blue Origin’s upcoming NS-20 flight. Picture: Blue Origin

Davidson is the third celebrity to join Jeff Bezos’ space travel company. Star Trek actor William Shatner and Good Morning America host Michael Strahan were celebrity guests on earlier Blue Origin flights.

Shatner, 90, who became the oldest person to go into space, called the experience one of “the most profound and humbling” of his life.

Star Trek actor William Shatner (centre) became the oldest person to go into space. Picture: Mario Tama/Getty Images.

“I hope I never recover from this. I hope that I can maintain what I feel now. I don’t want to lose it,” he said.

“I am so filled with emotion with what just happened.”

– With AFP

Originally published as Pete Davidson heading to space on Blue Origin’s fourth human flight