Hannah Krutz may have been where no Dunedin scarfie has gone before, but she didn't see anything while she was there.
Miss Krutz, aged 22, spent 25 minutes in a Russian MiG 25 fighter jet, travelling to the edge of space and back, but has to report, sadly, that heavy cloud cover obscured her view of Earth from 82,000ft.
Still, it was a rush getting there, the secondary school teaching student said.
She won the trip for two in a Caltex promotion. The trip included three days in Los Angeles and two nights in Moscow for the MiG trip, arranged by American company Space Adventures.
After a medical examination at a Russian air base, Miss Krutz and her brother, Tristan, 23, were wrapped in long johns, strapped into a pressure suit, then hidden under a helmet and oxygen system before being whipped into the upper atmosphere at three times the speed of sound.
"You were so strapped in you couldn't really look around. It was disappointing not to see Earth, but ... it's not something most people will get to do," Miss Krutz said.
She will receive a photo of herself with the pilot and a model of the MiG, and already has a certificate of achievement and an American flight jacket.
- NZPA
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