Air hostess picks up chocolate bar wrapper and wins space trip

[Woodmonkey]

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 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.

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[bhdean]

See what happens when you go dumpster diving.

[conlor]

conlor sneaks over to the Saloon to see what's been thrown away.....

she puts on rubber gloves first....

[Scrappy]

You might want a respirator with a fresh oxygen supply Clean suit probably as well.

[bhdean]

I have always been a fan of dumpster diving and have collected many things that my wife calls junk, until someting is needed that I have in my "junk" pile.

[jjvman]

I haven't dove into dumpsters, but my collection has often come in handy. I need a faucet for the bathroom sink, but I think it got thrown out in one of her cleaning fits.
I hope the XP doesn't mean it is run by Windows software. They may return sooner than they think or become "Lost In 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.

Originally posted by Woodmonkey.