奇聞：法國空姐垃圾桶裏撿運氣 中太空遊大獎

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.

一名法國空姐不久將成爲歐洲最早的太空遊客之一。日前，這位空姐從垃圾裏撿回一張巧克力包裝紙，並驚喜地發現上面的數字中了“太空遊”幸運大獎。

32歲的瑪蒂爾達•埃普朗說，前不久她在當地一家超市買了塊（雀巢）“奇巧”巧克力，吃完後順手把包裝紙扔進了垃圾桶，因爲她覺得“自己根本不可能中獎”。

兩個小時後，埃普朗回頭想想那個大獎賽，還是決定試試運氣，於是就從垃圾桶裏翻出了那張包裝紙，並驚喜地發現自己竟然中了大獎。

埃普朗在接受法國信息廣播電臺的採訪時說：“對於從事航空工作的人來說，這就是夢想成真。”

雀巢集團法國公司的一位女發言人確認了埃普朗中獎的消息。屆時埃普朗將乘坐Rocketplane公司製造的一架戰鬥機大小的四座航天飛機遨遊太空。Rocketplane公司製造的航天飛機主要用於普通太空遊。

埃普朗將乘坐Rocketplane XP式航天飛機抵達距離地面100公里的高空，體驗五分鐘的失重狀態。在此之前，她將前往美國的俄克拉荷馬城接受爲期四天的太空訓練。