From daily The Morning Star in Britain:
April 6 group plans space trip for Morsi
EGYPT: An opposition group is using a novel way to protest against President Mohammed Morsi – signing him up for a chance to win a trip to space.
The April 6 Youth Movement said on Thursday that it had entered the Islamist leader’s name in an online contest because it wanted to be rid of him.
It called on supporters to vote for the president so he’d have a chance to win the trip into space.
There was no immediate response from the president’s press office.
From AFP news agency today:
Morsi on Saturday was leading the field in Egypt in an online contest sponsored by deodorant makers Axe to send a lucky few on a shuttle operated by space tourism company Space Expedition Corp.
Egypt’s opposition movement April 6 entered Morsi into the competition.
“With God’s help, and under His care, Morsi will soon be launched to the moon,” the group said on its Facebook page, along with a picture of the president in a spacesuit.
The presidency has not responded to the campaign on behalf of the former engineer and self-professed “Planet of the Apes” fan.
But his opponents have enthusiastically embraced the possibility. “I just voted for Morsi to go to space. Proudest moment in voting history,” one of them wrote on Twitter.
Trailing far behind Morsi’s almost 22,000 votes, Egyptian mountain climber Omar Samra said he selected Morsi even though he himself dreamed of going into space.
“That awkward moment when you’re confused between fulfilling your dream to go to space and sending your president into orbit,” he wrote on Twitter.
Twenty-two winners from around the world will be trained for the trip at a camp in Florida, United States, before they board the shuttle to take them 103 kilometres (64 miles) above the Earth.
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You wouldn’t know if there was an extra seat on the shuttle would you? We have a similar desire here in the states.
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The contest is open to men and women of about 60 countries:
http://www.space.com/19199-axe-apollo-space-launch-contest.html
The article does not say whether the USA is included in those 60 countries.
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