Davidson and five other people are scheduled to lift off on March 23.
Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket lifts off from the company's West Texas launch site on July 20, 2021, carrying company founder Jeff Bezos and three other people.The"Saturday Night Live" star and five other people are scheduled to fly to suborbital space aboard Blue Origin'sLiftoff is targeted for 9:30 a.m. EDT from Blue Origin's launch facility in West Texas. You can watch it here at Space.
The March 23 mission will be Blue Origin's fourth crewed spaceflight and the 20th liftoff overall for New Shepard . Joining Davidson on the flight are businessman and angel investor Marty Allen; married couple Sharon Hagle and Marc Hagle, both of whom are active philanthropists ; entrepreneur and teacher Jim Kitchen; and George Nield, the president of Commercial Space Technologies, LLC.
Nield has a long history in the spaceflight field. He formerly served as associate administrator for the Federal Aviation Administration's Office of Commercial Space Transportation, for example, and also managed the Flight Integration Office for NASA's space shuttle program.announcing the mission this morning, Blue Origin noted that the actor will fly"alongside five customers."
Blue Origin has not revealed how much a seat aboard New Shepard costs. The company's main competitor in the suborbital tourism realm,, is currently charging $450,000 to ride its VSS Unity space plane, which has not yet carried paying passengers. The NS-20 crew manifest continues a trend for Blue Origin, which flew at least one celebrity on each of its first three flights.
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