Air hostess picks up chocolate bar, wins space trip

[angel_luv]

And it wasn't dark chocolate either. Just a Kit Kat Bar.



http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080716/od_nm/space_odd_dc

PARIS (Reuters) - A French air hostess will become one of Europe's pioneer space tourists after picking a chocolate wrapper out of the rubbish and finding a winning number in a compe ion to fly to the upper reaches of the earth's atmosphere.

Mathilde Epron, 32, said she had bought a Kit Kat chocolate bar at her local supermarket but initially threw the wrapper in the bin, telling herself that "it's only others who win."

Two hours later, thinking back to the compe ion, she decided to try her luck and fished the wrapper out of the bin, only to find a code marked inside.

"For someone who works in air travel it's really a dream come true," she told France Info radio.

A spokeswoman for Nestle in France confirmed that Epron had won the prize to take a flight on a four-seater, fighter-sized aircraft built by Rocketplane, a company that builds aircraft intended to provide cheap flights into space.

She will receive four days of astronaut training in Oklahoma City in the United States before boarding the Rocketplane XP aircraft which will reach an al ude of 100 km (60 miles) and allow a five-minute experience of weightlessness.

(Reporting by Joseph Tandy; Editing by James Mackenzie)

[pussyface.]

It's like something out of Willy Wonka.
i'm gay and pregnant.

[CubanMustGo]

Sub-orbital flights hardly count as a 'space trip'. Cool that she won it after picking her wrapper out of the trash, tho.

Hopefully she doesn't spend the entire five minutes of weightlessness upchucking her cookies.

Not to mention the thing is basically vaporware right now and this trip, likely as not, will never happen. But they are looking for some suckers to be the "founders club" of space tourists at only $250K each!

[Sense]

.. if I would've found something like that.. I would've called it a decent life.

[Brutalis]

That would be so much fun.

I'd like go sky diving as well.

[AlamoSpursFan]

She will receive four days of astronaut training in Oklahoma City

Noted astronaut training hub...

Last words recorded on the Rocket Plane's black box recorder before the horrendous explosion: "Hey y'all...WATCH THIS!!!"

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

Remember when Curious George went into space? He came back a hero. I wish the same success for this French flight attendent.