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Cheers! French wine, vines headed home after year in space – ABC News
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The International Space Station bid adieu Tuesday to 12 bottles of French Bordeaux wine and hundreds of snippets of grapevines that spent a year orbiting the world in the name of science.
SpaceXs Dragon cargo capsule undocked with the wine and vines and thousands of pounds of other gear and research, including mice and aimed for a splashdown Wednesday night in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Tampa. The Atlantic had been targeted, but poor weather shifted the arrival to…
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