After weeks of rampant speculation by fans and space-chicken experts alike, sources close to the KFC empresario today confirmed that Sanders plans to launch the Zinger — a spicy, crispy, hand ...

Despite it being billed by KFC as a "space mission," the Zinger chicken sandwich is about 50 miles (80 kilometers) shy of leaving the atmosphere. The planned four-day flight might set a record for ...

The difference is in the egg. Out of 67 billion, give or take a few, chicken eggs laid in the United States last year, 32 were sent into orbit aboard the space shuttle Discovery.