Has it ever occurred to you that an everyday snack, let us say, a small Kit-Kat, will be of great importance to you? Believe it or not, it is indeed sometimes.
Recently, a French flight attendant found a winning code for a competition to fly into sub-orbital space on board a new spacecraft in her Kit-Kat.
She first didn’t see that only after two hours, she went back to the trash to get the wrapper back and, to her great surprise, she was the one to win. She got the candy from a local supermarket, though she never thought that she would ever win.
As GADLING reports, “Ms. Epron is scheduled to get four days of astronaut training at Rocketplanes headquarters in Oklahoma then will be on one of the first flights scheduled in 2010.”
A spokeswoman for Nestle later confirmed that Ms. Epron had indeed won the prize as part of a competition being run by the company in France, according to SKY NEWS. “Ms. Epron told France Info radio that ‘for someone who works in air travel it’s really a dream come true.’”
Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic is expected to be the first company to provide sub-orbital space flights to the general public, although an official launch date has not yet been set.
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