Pete Davidson won’t be be blasting into area on certainly one of Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin shuttles later this month, the aerospace firm introduced.
The “Saturday Night time Reside” star “is now not in a position to be part of the NS-20 crew on this mission,” Blue Origin tweeted Thursday night.
“We are going to announce the sixth crew member within the coming days,” the tweet mentioned.
Davidson, 28, had been slated to depart for a low-Earth orbit on March 23 with investor Marty Allen, SpaceKids World founder Sharon Hagle, her husband and Tricor Worldwide CEO Mark Hagle, entrepreneur Jim Kitchen and Business Area Applied sciences President George Nield.
The Staten Island native would have been the most recent huge title to move to the ultimate frontier on Blue Origin, after Michael Strahan, William Shatner and Bezos himself just lately breached the environment.
Earlier this month, Web page Six was the first to report that Davidson had aspirations to move to area earlier this month. The comedian and his girlfriend Kim Kardashian had been spotted at Bezos’ Los Angeles compound in January.
“Pete is worked up,” a Davidson supply mentioned on the time. “They haven’t signed a contract but, however it seems to be prefer it’s going to occur.”
Davidson had been conspicuously absent from “SNL” the previous three weeks as he filmed a movie.
The comedian had additionally been embroiled in a drawn-out public spat with Kardashian’s estranged husband Kanye West in current weeks, largely heading off accusations and threats from the rapper, who’s diagnosed with bi-polar disorder.