A man who won a spot on last year's Space X private flight had to give up his spot after realizing he exceeded the weight limit.
Kyle Hippchen, a Florida-based airline captain, poses for a photo in front of a SpaceX Dragon capsule at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Friday, Jan. 21, 2022. Hippchen, the real winner of a first-of-its-kind sweepstakes, gave his seat on a SpaceX flight to his college roommate. Though his secret is finally out, that doesn’t make it any easier knowing he missed his chance to orbit Earth because he exceeded the weight limit.
It was only after dropping all that cash, however, that Hippchen realized that—at 330 pounds—he was overweight by 250 pounds for the voyage.. “I’m insanely disappointed, but it is what it is.” But it’s not like he didn’t consider trying to lose the weight: He, Sembroski, and others were obviously space fanatics in their day, clamoring into cars to drive all the way south from campus during school just to catch a glimpse of a NASA shuttle launch, so of course the thought to get to the proper limit crossed his mind.
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