Air hostess picks up chocolate bar, wins space trip

[derby378]

WHY is it that I never see contests like this in America?!?

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

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.

[MrCoffee]

1. Is she going in a glass elevator?

That's Wonkatastic!

[pokerfan]

2. Sixty mile high club?

[kay1864]

3. Meh. I want a *real* spaceflight

Rocketplane is a small company selling $200,000 rides into suborbital space that will last all of 45 minutes from liftoff to touchdown.

http://www.popsci.com/military-aviation-space/article/2006-08/its-rocket-its-plane-itsrocket-plane

Four days of astronaut training for this?



When I win a space flight, it'd better be to the damn space station :grr:

[derby378]

4. And only four of those minutes are weightless flight?

I think someone's getting ripped off. For $200,000, I want to be able to play the "I'm crushing your head" game with Earth.

[crimsonblue]

5. You can go up with the Russians any time you like

if you have $20 mil.