It’s time for the Blue Origins to hit the skies and we have some special guests. Among the crew of six who will be part of this fourth and one of its kind flights will be American comedian and SNL star Pete Davidson taking off on March 23. Here’s everything you need to know about who others are taking this trip with Pete and all the details of the flight.
The names have been posted and the New Shepherd spacecraft is all set to fast approach launch day. The flight’s launch is scheduled for March 23 at 8:30 a.m. from Blue Origin’s Launch Site One in West Texas. Passengers on the flight experience would be weightless for about four minutes by traveling to the edge of space at an altitude of just over 65 miles. The new Shepard is a vertical take-off, vertical landing (VTVL), crew-rated suborbital launch vehicle developed by Blue Origin. It is designed as a commercial sub-orbital space tourism system and will also propagate the upcoming launch.
#NewShepard mission #NS20 will include Marty Allen, @NBCSNL‘s Pete Davidson, @SharonHagleMarc Hagle, @JimKitchenand @DrGeorgeNield† The March 23 launch is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. CDT / 1:30 p.m. UTC from Launch Site One. Read more : pic.twitter.com/a2zIdCf2Mt
— Blue Origin (@blueorigin) March 14, 2022
As controversy after controversy rolls in over comedian Pete Davidson, here’s something that involves no drama at all. Pete will join the likes of “The King of Staten Island,” Party America philanthropist Marty Allen, philanthropist and real estate mogul Marc Hagle and his wife, Sharon Hagle, founder of the nonprofit SpaceKids Global; explorer and professor Jim Kitchen of the University of North Carolina; and dr. George Nield, the president of Commercial Space Technologies and former manager of the Flight Integration Office for NASA’s space shuttle program.
Blue origin
Blue Origin, LLC is an American privately funded aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital aerospace company. The program aims to make access to space cheaper and more reliable through reusable launchers. Readers should note that suborbital spaceflight is a spacecraft in which the spacecraft reaches space, but its orbit intersects the atmosphere or the surface of the gravitational body from which it was launched, so that it will not complete one orbital revolution or achieve escape speed.
Blue Origin is owned and led by Amazon founder and former CEO Jeff Bezos. Blue Origin planned its first manned test flight in 2019, which was postponed to 2021, and has since announced that tickets for commercial flights of up to six people would be sold. The first manned flight took place on July 20, 2021.