Scientists plan to put fried chicken hamburgers on the edge of space

Kentucky plans to carry out a historic mission to send fried chicken sandwiches to the edge of space. The chicken fast food giant has been promoting the "space flight" for two months in the TV commercials, and first disclosed the details of the "Zinger 1" task in June 13th.

According to foreign media reports, Kentucky plans to carry out a historic mission to send fried chicken sandwiches to the edge of space. The chicken fast food giant has been promoting the "space flight" for two months in the TV commercials, and first disclosed the details of the "Zinger 1" task in June 13th.

With the help of World View, Stratollite balloon, KFC will bring the Zinger spicy fried chicken sandwich into the stratosphere. The main ingredient of this sandwich is fried chicken breast, lettuce and mayonnaise, it will rise with balloon into the stratosphere, after returning to earth. "To promote the spicy fried chicken sandwich trip further, we feel very excited," KFC President Kevin Hoffman (Kevin Hochman) said, "but from a serious point of view, we are proud to support World View company in the promotion of space research commitment, we also believe that they can make the world famous Zinger sandwich into space."

According to the introduction of World View, the Zinger sandwich will not really reach outer space, because the maximum height of the Stratollite balloon is about 46 kilometers, less than half the internationally recognized distance between the earth and the outer space. The goal of this task is to be controlled commercial cargo ever stratospheric balloon flying the longest distance is World View, and the first task for several days of flight system.

"People come to watch and take the task, they will witness the Aerospace Engineering (603698, shares), to a certain extent the history of space flight," World View, founder and CEO Jan Poynter (Jane Poynter) said, "this is the first time we will transport to the stratosphere and run a long a period of time."

The public can watch the "Zinger 1" flight on the "yesweareactuallysendingachickensandwichto.space" website. The launch window of this mission will be opened in June 21st. Different from the typical high altitude balloon flight, World View company designed a variety of flight routes for Stratollite from the balloon voyage to stay over in a particular place, over specific areas of interest in and stay for a few days, weeks or months.

According to World View, Stratollites balloon can also serve as a static wireless network router, providing network services for remote or impoverished areas, or monitoring some crisis situations for some hard to enter areas. World View, chief pilot, former NASA astronaut Ron Galan (Ron Garan) said, Stratollites will launch platform to the atmosphere in the stratosphere, it has broad potential applications in many aspects, such as communications, weather forecasting, climate modeling, disaster response etc..

In addition to the development of unmanned stratospheric platform, World View company is also committed to "travelers" (Voyager) the development of manned flight platform. In the near future, the platform will provide "comfort, safety and change of vision" for tourists. Tourists will be transported to the edge of the space by capsule balloons. Taber McCallum Taber MacCallum, co-founder and chief technology officer of World View, said that through continuous improvement of technology, their tasks will provide new ways and perspectives for people to watch the earth.

The Zinger 1 task is at least an attempt at KFC's second space flight. In 1986, Kentucky funded a scientific experiment designed by students, Chix in Space, to study the changes of chicken embryos under microgravity. In spite of the first flight, the Challenger space shuttle, which was carried out by the experiment, unfortunately exploded and crashed, but then in 1989, the experiment reached the orbit of the earth with the shuttle Discovery. Later, it carried out more in-depth research at the international space station.

From April this year, Kentucky began to play related ads on television to promote the Zinger 1 task. "In a way, it's funny to send chicken sandwiches to the upper air," McCallum said. "But on the other hand, as one of the biggest companies in the world, KFC believes we can launch their products in the first flight. I think this is really great. "