Blue Origin Delays Next Space Launch, ‘SNL’ Star Davidson Will Not Join Flight

A helicopter flies over a building featuring Blue Origin's logo as rocket New Shepard is prepared for the NS-18 suborbital flight mission carrying Star Trek actor William Shatner as part of a four-person crew near Van Horn, Texas, on Oct. 13, 2021. Mike Blake/Reuters

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space tourism service has postponed until March 29 a flight initially set for next week, while “Saturday Night Live” comic Pete Davidson will not be a passenger on the launch, the company said on Thursday.

The company, in a brief notice first posted on Twitter, gave no immediate explanation for the change or Davidson’s withdrawal from the manifest of Blue Origin’s fourth commercial flight since last summer.