This French wine is truly out of this world.
The SpaceX capsule will bring a case of Bordeaux back to Earth when it splashes on Wednesday – and it is not to blame after aging in outer space for more than a year.
The intoxicating cargo was shipped to the International Space Station in November 2019 as part of an experiment launched by a Luxembourg startup company.
“Our goal is to address the solution to how we will have agriculture tomorrow that is both organic and healthy and able to feed humanity,” said Nicolas Carume, co-founder of Space Cargo Unlimited.
“And we think space was the key,” he said.
In addition, Gaume added, future lunar or Mars explorers might want a little Cabernet Sauvignon with their space rations.
“Being French, it’s part of life to have good food and good wine,” he explained.
The 12 bottles were doped and carefully packed in steel cylinders to avoid breaking.
They are part of a larger cargo load, which includes 320 fragments of Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon vines sent into space in March and a few mice.
The bottled wine will remain sealed until at least next month, when one or two will be opened for a tasting in Bordeaux – followed by months of chemical tests to determine the impact of the space on expensive grape juice.
The SpaceX Dragon’s capsule is set to splash Wednesday night.
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