This French wine is really out of this world.
The SpaceX capsule will bring a case of Bordeaux to Earth when it splashes on Wednesday, and is not a normal product after aging in outer space for more than a year.
The intoxicating cargo was sent to the International Space Station in November 2019 as part of an experiment launched by a Luxembourg-based start-up company.
“Our goal is to address the solution of how we will have an organic and healthy agriculture tomorrow capable of feeding humanity,” said Nicolas Gaume, co-founder of Space Cargo Unlimited.
“And we thought space was the key,” he said.
Also, Gaume added, future moon or Mars explorers may want some 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 carefully capped and packaged in steel cylinders to prevent breakage.
They are part of a larger payload that includes 320 fragments of Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon vines sent into space in March and several mice.
The bottled wine will remain sealed until at least next month, when one or two will be opened for tasting in Bordeaux, followed by months of chemical testing to determine the impact of the space on grape juice.
The SpaceX dragon capsule is due to explode Wednesday night.
With publishing cables