In a distant, distant galaxy, Pete Davidson and Jeff Bezos may soon be exchanging liners aboard a Blue Origin space flight.
Stand-up comedian and Saturday Night Live star may be playing in front of a select few after Page Six announced on Thursday that the 28-year-old Davidson is close to a deal to accompany Amazon’s founder on an intergalactic mission. with zero gravity weightlessness during commercial space travel.
“Pete is excited,” a source close to the joker told Six. “They have not yet signed a contract, but it looks like it will happen. Details are being clarified.”
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Pete Davidson and Jeff Bezos may soon be exchanging liners aboard a Blue Origin space flight. (Getty / Getty Images)
Davidson and his girlfriend Kim Kardashian, who was declared unmarried by a California judge on Wednesday, were spotted at the Bezos complex in Los Angeles in January. Regarding the reunion, Davidson’s insider told Six that he “got along very well with Jeff when they met.”
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The source claims that if Davidson makes a deal to launch his Bezos space race, he could see himself launched into Earth’s stratosphere later this year.
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Former NFL star and current television analyst Michael Strahan was the last celebrity to travel to Bezos in space in December. The total flight time was 10 minutes and 13 seconds, and the New Shepard spacecraft reached a height of 66.5 miles before landing in the Texas desert.
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Earlier, 90-year-old Star Trek actor William Shatner, who plays Captain Kirk, told Bezos that he was “so emotional” about space flight. “This is exceptional,” he added. “I hope I never recover from that.”
Tom Hanks, best known for his role as astronaut Jim Lovell in Ron Howard’s 1995 film Apollo 13, recently confirmed rumors that he had in fact refused a space mission from Bezos.
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Representatives of Davidson and Blue Origin did not immediately respond to Fox News’s request for comment.