Comedian Pete Davidson will become an astronaut next week.
As it had been leaked a few days ago, and as it has now been confirmed, the comedian from the American program Saturday Night Live will travel to space with Jeff Bezos' company, Blue Origin.
The also founder of Amazon will not be among those who will arrive in space this time.
In this fourth flight with people, other crew members will be, especially businessmen associated with space and philanthropists.
The mission will take place next Wednesday, March 23, and will depart at 2:30 p.m., Spanish peninsular time.
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Pete Davidson's space climb could be a personal invitation made by Bezos.
At the end of January, the comedian and his partner, Kim Kardashian, went to the tycoon's house in Los Angeles.
There they were having dinner for several hours and chatting with him, but the reasons for that conversation had not transpired, which now seem clearer.
On this trip to space, Davidson will be accompanied by Marty Allen, president of the party company Party America and who has helped make it the main company in its sector in the US. Also the marriage formed by Sharon and Marc Hagle, being her the founder of SpaceKids Global, a non-profit organization to encourage students and especially girls to be part of the aerospace industry and through which since 2015 more than 100,000 young people have passed;
while he is president of a real estate company and together they are a renowned couple of philanthropists.
Also flying are University of North Carolina professor, space fanatic and entrepreneur Jim Kitchen;
and George Nield, founder and president of a technology company dedicated to “encouraging,
#NewShepard mission #NS20 will include Marty Allen, @NBCSNL's Pete Davidson, @SharonHagle, Marc Hagle, @JimKitchen, and @DrGeorgeNield.
Liftoff on March 23 is targeted for 8:30 am CDT / 13:30 UTC from Launch Site One. Read more 🚀: https://t.co/z8jXdnA9n4 pic.twitter.com/a2zIdCf2Mt
— Blue Origin (@blueorigin) March 14, 2022
Pete Davidson is not the first celebrity to go into space.
Last October it was learned that William Shatner, the actor who plays Captain Kirk in the
Star Trek
saga , would also fly beyond the confines of the Earth.
The actor made his flight on the 13th of that month, when he was 90 years old.
A couple of months later, in mid-December, former professional football player and now TV host Michael Strahan also went into space.
Now it is the turn of Davidson, a 28-year-old comedian from New York who is especially well-known in the United States.
These days the comedian is especially on everyone's lips because of his romantic relationship with Kim Kardashian, which has been going on for a few months and that she confirmed with a photograph of both a few days ago.
Kardashian is in the process of divorcing her still husband, rapper Kanye West and, although he has been seen with new partners, his very controversial social networks suggest that he does not like that the billionaire businesswoman and television star goes out with him humorist.
The last big row between these three celebrities has come this past weekend, when a friend of Davidson leaked to some American media some messages that the comedian and the rapper exchanged.
“Can you calm down for a second?
It's eight in the morning and I don't want us to be like this ”, the humorist's conversation started, from what could be seen in the messages.
“Kim is the best mother I have ever known.
What she does with those children is amazing and you don't know how fucking lucky you are that she is the mother of your children.
I've decided that I'm not going to let you treat us like this anymore and I'm done with being quiet.
Damn you".
To this, West replied: “Oh, how profane.
And where are you now?".
Davidson would reply, “In bed with your wife,” sending her a shirtless selfie from a bed.
"Glad to see you're out of the hospital and out of rehab," West replied, as the other retort.
“Same here.
It's amazing what those sites do for you when you need help.
You should try.
I'm in Los Angeles today if you want to stop being an internet asshole and talk."
What is unknown at the moment is whether the conversation went beyond their cell phones and took place in person.
