Pete Davidson, Kim Kardashian's Girlfriend, Cancels Flying To Space, Blue Origin Announces His Replacement Soon

The joy of the passengers on the third flight of Blue Origin. (photo: @blueorigin)

JAKARTA - Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin space tourism service has postponed its flights until March 29. Their flight was originally set to take place next week.

According to Blue Origin's statement, on Thursday, March 17, on this flight, comic "Saturday Night Live" Pete Davidson was canceled as a passenger at the launch.

The company, in a brief notice first posted on Twitter, did not provide an immediate explanation of Davidson's change or withdrawal from Blue Origin's fourth commercial flight manifest, since last summer.

Even though the name Davidson (28), boyfriend of reality TV star and socialite Kim Kardashian, his name was just officially named as "guest of honor" on Monday, March 14. He will join a Blue Origin flight carrying five paying customers on a flight originally scheduled to fly on March 23.

The fact that "Davidson is no longer able to join" on this new flight means Blue Origin says it will announce a sixth crew member, a replacement for Davidson, in the coming days.

The five people who have definitely joined the mission are angel investor Marty Allen; real estate veteran Marc Hagle and his wife Sharon Hagle; Professor Jim Kitchen of the University of North Carolina and George Nield, founder-president of Commercial Space Technologies.

Like the first three groups of Blue Origin passengers, they will ascend to the edge of outer space, on a six-story, autonomous spaceship called the New Shepard. The plane will take off from Blue Origin's launch site near the rural west Texas town of Van Horn.

The suborbital joyride, which lasts about 10 minutes from takeoff to landing, will rise to an altitude of about 350,000 feet (106 km). At that altitude the passenger will experience a state of weightlessness for a while, before finally descending back to Earth for a parachute landing.

Bezos, the billionaire founder of online retail giant Amazon took part in Blue Origin's maiden crewed flight into space last July.

He was accompanied by his brother, Mark Bezos, tertia aviator Wally Funk and an 18-year-old Dutch high school graduate.

The next passenger on the Blue Origin mission was 90-year-old "Star Trek" actor William Shatner. He became the oldest person to fly into space. There was also "Good Morning America" ​​host Michael Strahan, and the eldest daughter of pioneering astronaut Alan Shepard, whose name is immortalized on Blue Origin's spacecraft.