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The Kit Kat Space Tourist
Yesterday she was still a Chocoholic Anonymous — today, Reuters adds a face to the story:
French air hostess Mathilde Epron 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. Nestle France confirmed that Epron had won the prize (worth $250,000) 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.
Fri 18-Jul-08 | Posted in: People, Events
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