We’ve been following the Lynx Academy since it’s launch and have watched as thousands of hopefuls wanting a chance to go into space have come and fallen by the way side, leaving only four lucky people still standing with a chance to win the truly out of this world prize.
This week, the four finalists had their first taste of real fame as Lynx arranged for heroic portraits of each contestant to appear on billboards in their hometowns across the UK, including Manchester City centre, Bristol, Brighton and London. Joshua Ratcliffe, 21, a budding guitarist and student from Manchester, Nadav Eldar, 23, a Philosophy & Japanese student at the University of Leeds, Oliver Knight, 25, an Operations Engineer from Malvern in Worcestershire and Jocelino Rodrigues, a 19 year-old Aerospace Engineering student at the University of Bristol, are now awaiting the next phase of the competition that will see them jet off to the Lynx Global Space Camp in Florida, where they will compete for a second time and final time against eachother.
Joshua Ratcliffe said, “It was exciting enough to win a place in the final 250 and then to be chosen to go to Space Camp in America so having a billboard in my home town is just the icing on the cake”.
Fellow finalist, Nadav Elder, said, “I’m counting down the days now until I leave for Space Camp which will be an unforgettable experience. To be given the chance to actually enter space is incredible and all my friends and family have supported me the whole way.”
Once chosen, the winner will break the sound barrier whilst flying 103 kilometres at the maximum airspeed possible. The engine will then cut off and they will see Earth as only 500 have before. The spaceship will reach ‘apogee’ at 103 km, at this point the lucky cadet will experience weightlessness in zero gravity before beginning the descent back to Earth.
However, if you’re reading this and wishing you could go to space, Lynx Apollo have decided to offer an extra ticket to people who enter the prize draw offered on any Lynx Apollo products (excluding minis). You just have to enter the on-pack codes at www.lynxapollo.com and you never know, you could be going into space as well.
