Pete Davidson Set To Jet Off To Space On Blue Origin Next Week

Pete Davidson is going to space as part of a six-member team on Blue Origin's next flight next week.

The Saturday Night Live star will be the only non-paying guest on the trip aboard the New Shepard rocket, which is set to blast off from the company's Launch Site One in West Texas on March 23 at 8:30 am local time.

It will be the fourth human flight for the company which launched its billionaire founder and owner Jeff Bezos to space on its first crewed mission last summer.

The other crewmates are CEO and investor Marty Allen, husband and wife Sharon and Marc Hagle, who run a non-profit and business respectively, teacher and explorer Jim Kitchen, and George Nield, who founded a company that promotes commercial space activity.

The ticket prices remain a secret as they have since the first flight.

Named after pioneering astronaut Alan Shepard, New Shepard is Blue Origin's reusable, autonomously-flown suborbital rocket system that is capable of crossing the Karman Line, the internationally-recognized boundary of space, 62 miles (100 kilometers) high.

During the 11-minute round trip, passengers experience several minutes of weightlessness and can observe the curvature of the Earth.

The capsule floats back to the surface on giant parachutes for a gentle desert landing.