Later this month Blue Origin will launch its 20th mission and its fourth with passengers. The mission has been dubbed NS-20 and onboard will be six passengers.
Those passengers include angel investor Marty Allen, founder of SpaceKids Global Sharon Hagle, president of Tricor International, Marc Hagle, teacher and entrepreneur Jim Kitchen, president of Commercial Space Technologies Dr George Nield and Pete Davidson.
Yes, the Saturday Night Live and The King of Staten Island star is headed to space later this month.
The NS-20 mission will launch on 23rd March at 08:30 CDT from Launch Site One in West Texas and each member of the crew will carry a postcard to space. These postcards are part of Club for the Future’s Postcards to Space which is meant to inspire kids to pursue STEM careers.
The six-member crew will train at Blue Origin’s facilities in Texas in the build up to the launch. As with past Blue Origin flights with human crew, the flight seemingly won’t last all that long with the crew heading to space, experiencing low gravity and then heading back to Earth.
According to a report from CNN, the entire flight will only last around 10 minutes.
SpaceX has also been hard at work as regards human spaceflight. Back in February the firm announced a series of private space missions championed by Inspiration4 captain Jared Issacman. The missions are dubbed Polaris and seek to advance humanity’s space exploration aspirations.
Unfortunately, reaching space is still reserved for astronauts and the ultra rich so until that changes, talk of space flight for all is really just all talk.
