— Don’t go, Go to McDonald’s to see NASA’s House Launch System (SLS) rocket.
The moon-bound booster is featured on the quick meals chain’s brown paper baggage as one of many prizes you may win by taking part in Monopoly. The rocket is illustrated moreover a Polaris off-road car, Fanatics merchandise and Pickleball paddles.
No, NASA isn’t gifting away a 322-foot-tall (98-meter) SLS, however with the precise mixture of sport items, you may win a visit for you and as much as three friends to the Kennedy House Heart Customer Advanced in Florida. The 21 potential winners can e book their journeys all through this 12 months and subsequent, that means they may choose to make use of the prize to be on the focused Feb. 5 launch of Artemis II, NASA’s first flight with astronauts to return to the moon in additional than 50 years.
“Accumulate Kentucky Avenue, Indiana Avenue and Illinois Avenue to doubtlessly win a VIP tour and journey expertise for 4 at Kennedy House Heart Customer Advanced,” reads McDonald’s Monopoly “Get Your Bag” web site. “The approximate odds of gathering the potential successful mixture are 1 in 3,119,992,100.”
The NASA prize pack contains round-trip coach airplane seats for the winner and as much as three friends; a three-night keep at a lodge; a present card for 3 dinners for 4; a pre-paid card for airport meals or snacks; a pre-paid reward card to buy transport to and from airports and to and from Kennedy House Heart Customer Advanced; and meals coupons for breakfast, lunch, dinner or snacks. The journey may also embody an VIP tour expertise of the customer advanced, a chat with a former astronaut, a self-guided tour of the middle’s sights and a voucher for a $1000 purchasing spree in The House Store.
The approximate retail worth of the prize is $9,550, in line with McDonald’s.
The customer advanced typically prices additional for premium launch viewing tickets (which aren’t included within the prize) however NASA’s plans to launch the Artemis II crew fall exterior of the competition’s blackout dates (Dec. 20, 2025 to Jan. 4, 2026). If the company isn’t able to fly on Feb. 5, there are different alternatives that month and on via to April when the 10-day mission out past the moon and again may start.
The inclusion of the SLS marks the second time the rocket has been depicted in a McDonald’s promotion. In 2019, the orange and white launch car was reproduced as two of the Completely happy Meal toys that includes astronaut Snoopy. “Rocket Trip” was a pullback toy that had Snoopy and Woodstock using on the SLS and its Orion spacecraft and “Take Off Launcher” was a spinning high that launched Snoopy from atop the booster.
The look of the SLS on merchandise, exterior of toys, fashions and reward store souvenirs, continues to be uncommon when in comparison with what number of occasions the area shuttle and NASA’s prior moon rocket, the Saturn V, emerged in popular culture. Previous to this Monopoly promotion, maybe essentially the most distinguished use of the SLS was among the many graphics on containers of Common Mills’ Fortunate Charms cereal in 2021.
