Drink Pepsi, Go to Space?

Kayaker writes "According to an article on AdAge.com, Pepsi is considering a new promotion contest that would include a ride on the Russian Soyuz space taxi. Maybe Pepsi is better than Coke?"

Does pepsi keep their promises?

[lingqi]

what happened to tha harrier jet they promised to the pepsi drinkers a little while back? it was supposed to be a bargain (if you bought 10 million dollars worth of pepsi, i think), but i don't remember if anyone actually got it.

Re:Does pepsi keep their promises?

[unicron]

They actually gave it to him, but it was completely stripped. No engines or electronics, and obviously no weaponry. It was basically a metal shell in the shape of a harrier, and he also had to sign something saying he would keep it at a local airfield. I'm almost sure he ended up selling it for scrap metal.

Funny sidenote from AW&ST

[sphealey]

Saw a tidbit in Aviation Week & Space Technology last week: NASA has been fighing the idea of space tourism with every erg of its strength. No one knows the exact reasoning, but they are utterly opposed to anyone buying a ride to the ISS.

When Lance and his handlers first started getting cold feet over his ride with the Russians, NASA suddenly realized that without a tourist on board the RSA might not have enough cash on hand to launch the mission! So they quietly dropped their opposition.

Wonder what is going to happen now that Mr. Lance has checked out? Not being able to fund a resupply mission is a bit of bad news I would think. Maybe they could send 4 or 5 Progress instead and see if any hit.

sPh

Re:nope

[Dynedain]

Um, the Jack and Coke was invented in the days when Coke actually had Cocaine in it. So a Jack and Coke was a nice (and very addicting) intoxicant.

Another Pepsi Space Contest

[jtedley]

when i was living in japan a few years ago, suntory (pepsi's japan distributor) tries to up pepsi's market share with a "trip to space" contest. i was all excited until i found out the "winner" would still have to shell out some dough, and it was a suborbital flight, during most of which one would be presumably stuck to the chair. info [rpi.edu] about the contest seems pretty hard to find on the web.

Re:Then have your soda OPEN SOURCE!

[philovivero]

You think Opencola is an Open Source answer to the corporate theives? You really think so? [opencola.com] Relevent Quote from the page:

Thank you for your interest in Opencola. The Opencola soft drink formula was a time-limited marketing promotion that ran publicly until 2001 in support of the company's introductory open source product offering. Opencola has since changed its strategic direction and is now focusing its core business on developing a proprietary distributed content search application.

Any other Open Source Colas out there? On the bright side, if you act fast, you can download the PDF of making Open Cola now, and maybe someone can fork the project.