155: Pete Davidson Is Going To Space?

EPISODE 155

Mar 20

UPDATE! Since this posting, the New York Times has reported that Pete Davidson may NOT be going to space, after all:

Pete Davidson, the “Saturday Night Live” comedian and actor, will no longer travel to the edge of space on the next Blue Origin spaceflight, the company said late Thursday.

The company had announced this week that its New Shepard rocket would launch on Wednesday, March 23, with Mr. Davidson and five other passengers. But the launch, the company’s fourth with human passengers, has now been rescheduled for March 29, Blue Origin said on Twitter.

The company, founded by Jeff Bezos, said that Mr. Davidson, 28, was “no longer able to join” the mission and that a replacement sixth crew member would be announced soon. No further details were given.

Pete Davidson is heading to space. The Saturday Night Live star is among the six passengers on the next launch of Jeff Bezos' space travel venture Blue Origin, the company announced Monday. The launch is scheduled for March 23, and Davidson will be the third celebrity on a Blue Origin flight. Beth didn’t tell her friends Chris and Char about this podcast topic discussion until they (willingly?) sat down with Beth and Chad to chat about Pete, and some other fun questions together, including,

“Who gets to go to space?” “Should the first private space explorers be required to have a charitable component tied to their mission?” “What can Pete Davidson bring to a space mission,” and “Which celebrity would YOU like to see fly in space?” Answers to all of these questions and more casual conversation on episode #155 of the Casual Space Podcast!

About the mission: From the New York Times reporter, Johnny Diaz: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/14/science/pete-davidson-blue-origin.html

About Pete Davidson:

Peter Michael Davidson (born November 16, 1993) is an American comedian and actor. He has been a cast member on the NBC late-night sketch comedy Saturday Night Live since 2014. Davidson has also appeared on the MTV shows Guy Code, Wild 'n Out, and Failosophy.[1][2] He has performed stand-up comedy on Adam DeVine's House Party, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and Comedy Underground with Dave Attell, and guest-starred in Brooklyn Nine-Nine.[3] In 2020, he co-wrote and starred in the semi-autobiographical comedy-drama film The King of Staten Island.