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Jake McDorman (Dopesick, The Right Stuff) has been tapped as the male lead opposite Betty Gilpin in Mrs. Davis, Peacock’s new drama series written and executive produced by Tara Hernandez and Damon Lindelof and produced by Warner Bros. Television, where both Hernandez and Lindelof are under overall deals..

NEW YORK -- Pete Davidson is heading to space.The “Saturday Night Live” star is among the six passengers on the next launch of Jeff Bezo's space travel venture Blue Origin, the company announced Monday.The launch is scheduled for March 23 and Davidson will be the third celebrity on a Blue Origin flight. William Shatner was on a flight in October, blasting off from West Texas and reaching a height of roughly 66 miles above Earth on the 10-minute jaunt.Former NFL great and “Good Morning America” co-host Michael Strahan flew on Blue Origin's second passenger flight in December, joining astronaut Alan Shepard's daughter on the journey.

Michael Strahan's officially an astronaut!The host and five others successfully completed their mission to space Saturday aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket after blasting off from the Launch Site One facility in West Texas. It's Blue Origin's third human flight, and the company's first full capsule with six crew members.Strahan, who wore his Super Bowl ring for the mission, was joined by Laura Shepard Churchley, the daughter of the nation's first astronaut, Alan Shepard.

Michael Strahan has become the latest celebrity to head to space in Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space mission, which blasted off on Saturday, Dec. 11.

Jeff Bezos’ rocket company, Blue Origin, is about to send former NFL great Michael Strahan into space — with a football.The co-host of ABC’s “Good Morning America” and former New York Giant prepped Saturday for a morning blastoff from West Texas. Five others will join him on the 10-minute flight, including the eldest daughter of the first American in space, Alan Shepard.

NEW YORK -- Good Morning America co-host Michael Strahan is going to space next month.Strahan, who turned 50 on Sunday, will join Laura Shepard Churchley, the eldest daughter of astronaut Alan Shepard, on the Dec.

Jake McDorman, who has appeared on two of the best TV series of the year, and, as well as taken the lead as Alan Shepard on the ambitious Disney+ series . But for the 34-year-old actor, who first broke out on the ABC Family original just over a decade ago, it’s been a long time coming. “I mean, as much as an actor can have agency over their choices, that is something that was very much by design,” McDorman tells ET.

Patrick J. Adams and Jake McDorman lead the Disney+ limited series as Major John Glenn and Lieutenant Commander Alan Shepard, respectively, two of America’s original astronauts known as the Mercury 7.

Patrick J. Adams is dishing on his role in The Right Stuff.

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