{"id":137441,"date":"2022-03-28T18:22:54","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T01:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/heres-whos-flying-on-thursdays-blue-origin-space-launch"},"modified":"2022-03-28T18:22:54","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T01:22:54","slug":"heres-whos-flying-on-thursdays-blue-origin-space-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/heres-whos-flying-on-thursdays-blue-origin-space-launch","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s who\u2019s flying on Thursday\u2019s Blue Origin space launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/heres-whos-flying-on-thursdays-blue-origin-space-launch2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pete Davidson was initially slated to be the next headline-grabbing name to take flight aboard the suborbital space tourism rocket developed by Jeff Bezos\u2019 company, Blue Origin, after the commercial space company launched several other famous faces on its previous flights.<\/p>\n<p>But the comedian abruptly dropped out of the mission after a schedule change pushed the flight <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/03\/18\/tech\/pete-davidson-snl-blue-origin\/index.html?utm_source=twCNN&utm_content=2022-03-18T10%3A15%3A15&utm_term=link&utm_medium=social\" target=\"_blank\">back by a week<\/a>. His seat was given to longtime company employee Gary Lai, the chief architect of the very rocket he\u2019ll fly on. Lai will be joined by five paying customers who had the means to dish out an undisclosed sum for one of the coveted crew capsule seats.<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff of the New Shepard launch vehicle had been scheduled for Tuesday morning, but the company said that it\u2019s expecting rough winds at its facilities near Van Horn, Texas at that time. Blue Origin is now targeting Thursday at 8:30 am CT. Those interested in catching the action \u2014 which is expected to look much like Blue Origin\u2019s three earlier suborbital jaunts \u2014 can tune into Blue Origin\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCVxTHEKKLxNjGcvVaZindlg\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\">webcast<\/a> Thursday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pete Davidson was initially slated to be the next headline-grabbing name to take flight aboard the suborbital space tourism rocket developed by Jeff Bezos\u2019 company, Blue Origin, after the commercial space company launched several other famous faces on its previous flights. But the comedian abruptly dropped out of the mission after a schedule change pushed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}