Leave a man. Come back a hero. Win a Trip to Space!

Axe Deodorant and Body Wash is apparently sending someone to space to promote it's new scent...let's see if we can get an ATS'er up there.

Axe Space Trip Contest
Space XC Shuttle
From ABC News

Earlier this month, Axe announced it will give men and women the chance to compete for one of 22 tickets to travel to space on a flight with Space Exploration Corp., or SpaceXC, based in Amsterdam.
The companies have enlisted Buzz Aldrin, the Apollo 11 astronaut who walked on the moon with Neil Armstrong in July 1969.
Space XC is not to be confused with SpaceX, which was founded by PayPal entrepreneur Elon Musk and has a contract with NASA to launch remote-controlled supply ships to the International Space Station.
Space XC, which says it hopes to “offer daily commercial flights into space as of 2014″ in a suborbital space plane called Lynx, is charging $95,000 to would-be space travelers.

Space Trip Contest

From Space XC Website

The XCOR Lynx is a special spacecraft indeed. SXC has selected the Lynx Mark I and Lynx Mark II for a number of remarkable specs that offer its passengers the ultimate space experience:

You’re not a passenger, you’re the co –pilot
The Lynx carries only two people; the pilot-astronaut and you, the spaceflight participant, in the right seat. You are in the best seat, up front with all the action, watching every move of the pilot. You are truly part of the mission, not just cargo. This also means that you will be given a suitable “call sign,” a pilot nickname. And, just like any other pilot, you will have no say in this at all.

I put my email in awhile back, haven't heard back yet though...

I entered. Thank's for the heads up.

Now all I have to do is figure our what I'm going to say during takeoff.

"I have got to get me one of these"

"This is one hell of a ride"

"Fly into the danger zone"

"I have the need, the need for speed" (of course I'd have to convince a fellow traveler to pull this one off)

"This is Major Tom to ground patrol."

"To infinity, and beyond"

"Space, the final frontier"

I don't want to be one of their guinea pigs, maybe in a few years.

Originally posted by Josephus
I entered. Thank's for the heads up.

Now all I have to do is figure our what I'm going to say during takeoff....
...

..."Fly into the danger zone"...

It would be great to go on this ride with Sterling Archer.

High Flight

by John Gillespie Magee, Jr.

Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds...and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of...wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up, the long, delirious burning blue
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, nor even eagle flew.
And while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space...
...put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

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So that's where Reagan got that eh?

Here is a little of my shameless self promotion! This has to do with the competition to get the most votes.
Please vote for me to go to space next year!

www2.axeapollo.com...

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I hope you make it but as someone else said, I'll wait for it to be established before I jump in. I can barely stand flying let alone going way up there.

Originally posted by Spookycolt
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I hope you make it but as someone else said, I'll wait for it to be established before I jump in. I can barely stand flying let alone going way up there.

Thanks! I appreciate it!
I'm a daredevil, the risks don't worry me too much. Let me at it. haha