Break me off a piece, break me off a piece, break me off a piece of that trip to outer space.
A French flight attendant is headed to even further reaches of the Earth’s atmosphere than her normal job takes her, thanks to buying a Kit Kat bar at her local supermarket. Mathilde Epron had the company’s winning wrapper, but rather than admission to Willy Wonka’s Chocolate factory, she won a ticket on a spacecraft.
Rocketplane, the same company we wrote about teaming up with a Japanese company to offer space weddings, will train Epron for four days in Oklahoma before blasting her and three others 60 miles up in the sky.
Epron actually threw away her Kit Kat wrapper without checking her contest results, then came back two hours later and fished it out of the trash. Luckily the trash collection didn’t come during that interim, or the space flight might have been one passenger short.
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