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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO – A helicopter flies above a Blue Origin logo-adorned building as Rocket New Shepard prepares for the NS-18 suborbital mission. William Shatner, Star Trek actor, is part of a crew of four near Van Horn in Texas.

By Steve Gorman

(Reuters] – Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Space Tourism Service has been delayed until March 29. A flight that was originally set for next Wednesday is being canceled by the company. “Saturday Night Live” comedian Pete Davidson won’t be a passenger at the launch.

A brief announcement was posted by the company on Twitter (NYSE 🙂 and did not provide any immediate explanations for the departure of Davidson from Blue Origin’s fourth commercial flight.

Davidson, 28, is the boyfriend and reality TV star Kim Kardashian’s socialite. He was named officially Monday as Blue Origin’s “honorary visitor” to accompany five of the paying customers who were originally booked for the March 23rd flight.

Blue Origin stated that “Davidson was no longer able” to be on the new flight and would soon announce its sixth crew member.

These five were previously announced as Marty Allen, an angel investor; Marc Hagle and Sharon Hagle, real estate veterans; Jim Kitchen from the University of North Carolina; George Nield (founder-president of Commercial Space Technologies).

They will be riding to the edge in a fully-autonomous spacecraft, the New Shepard. It is six stories tall and will launch from Blue Origin’s Van Horn, Texas, launch pad.

Suborbital joyrides last about 10 minutes, from liftoff until touchdown. Passengers will be treated to weightlessness at 350,000 feet (106km), before returning to Earth to parachute land.

Blue Origin’s initial crewed mission to space was piloted by Bezos (NASDAQ:), the billionaire founder, of Amazon.

His brother Mark Bezos was also there, a trailblazer in octogenarian female pilot Wally Funk, and he was accompanied by an 18-year old Dutch high school graduate.

Later, passengers included the 90-year-old actor of “Star Trek,” William Shatner (who became the oldest human to travel to space), Michael Strahan (Good Morning America’s co-host), and the eldest child of Alan Shepard, the pioneering astronaut after whom Blue Origin is named.

(Reporting Steve Gorman, Los Angeles; additional reporting by Jahnavi Ndumolu in Bengaluru; editing by Robert Birsel

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