Wait, did anyone know about a contest to go to outer space?

tierre_brown · Jul 17, 2008

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 competition to fly to the upper reaches of the earth's atmosphere.
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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 competition, 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 altitude of 100 km (60 miles) and allow a five-minute experience of weightlessness.

(Reporting by Joseph Tandy; Editing by James Mackenzie)
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Did anyone else know they had this kind of contest? Or is it only in Europe...

EDIT:
So was looking around for more info...
http://whyhomeschool.blogspot.com/2008/03/space-access-2008-chuck-lauer-of.html

For example Nestle is having a contest for French speaking people; they'll have contests for other language groups down the road. Nestle is spending $400,000 for two tickets, and then another six million dollars to promote the contest.
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Seems pretty neat, even if it is only 5 minutes of weightlessness, if you win it, it's worth it...

Lil Pun · Jul 17, 2008

Isn't there some poster who really likes Kit-Kats and pickles?

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