Air hostess wins space trip

[Nutty_ZA]

Paris - 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.

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 spokesperson 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 100km and allow a five-minute experience of Weightlessness.

That's Brilliant.... They should let the entire French Nation win, that way, we could send ALL the French into Outer Space

Also, the name of that rocketplane worries me a Bit... if it's anything like Microsofts namesake, it's bound to crash

[TheGuru]

Originally Posted by Nutty_ZA

That's Brilliant.... They should let the entire French Nation win, that way, we could send ALL the French into Outer Space

I think we should start fundraising

Originally Posted by Nutty_ZA

Also, the name of that rocketplane worries me a Bit... if it's anything like Microsofts namesake, it's bound to crash

Good Point