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Pete Davidson pulls out of Blue Origin space flight as he ‘no longer’ can join after feud with Kim Kardashian’s ex Kanye
PETE Davidson has pulled out of his planned trip to space.
Blue Origin officially announced he can “no longer” join the flight, with the grounding news coming after his feud with Kim Kardashian and her ex Kanye West.
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A tweet from Jeff Bezos Blue Origin company on March 17 read:
“Blue Origin’s 20th flight of New Shepard has shifted to Tuesday, March 29.”
“Pete Davidson is no longer able to join the NS-20 crew on this mission.
“We will announce the sixth crew member in the coming days.
It was earlier reported that Pete would launch from Blue Origin’s facility in West Texas on March 23.
The change of plans comes amid Kanye’s Instagram ban and an ongoing war with Pete amidst his romance with Kim, 41.
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The comedian was to join Party America CEO Marty Allen in the small space capsule.
Husband and wife Sharon and Marc Hagle will also be on the flight.
The final pair making up the then-team of six are entrepreneur Jim Kitchen and Dr. George Nield who is president of Commercial Space Technologies.
The space squad is also said be taking a selection of postcards written by kids as part of Blue Origin’s Club for the Future program.
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The idea is that Bezos’s rocket can take their dreams and wishes into space.
Blue Origin has not revealed the price of a ticket to fly on its rocket, designated New Shepard, but sales for the company were nearing $100 million last year, according to The New York Times.
While it’s unclear how much of that revenue was from ticket sales, Jeff Bezos told the Times that the company was doing “really well with private sales.”
As for Pete, the New York native famously played a character called Chad in a 2021 SNL skit, showing him visiting Mars as a colonist.
Elon Musk, CEO of Space X, was the show’s host when that skit aired.
JEFF’S JOURNEY
While this would be Pete’s first foray into space travel, Jeff has been there before.
In July 2021, he flew aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket.
He was joined by his brother Mark, pilot Wally Funk and Oliver Daemen – a teenage student from the Netherlands.
Other celebrities have also traveled to space on Blue Origin.
Jeff sent Star Trek star William Shatner to space in October 2021.
That month marked the beginning of Kim and Pete’s unexpected romance back on Earth.
Pete hasn’t yet commented on his out-of-this-world aspirations nor his leaving them behind.
