Science
Space-aged wine returning to earth for expert tasting – Euronews
The twelve bottles of Bordeaux will be examined by scientists to ascertain the effects of space travel on wine.
Twelve bottles of Bordeaux wine are heading back down to Earth after orbiting the world in the name of science.
SpaceX’s Dragon cargo capsule complete with its precious cargo will aim for a splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico late on Wednesday.
But none of the bottles will be opened until the end of February.
Space Cargo Unlimited, a Luxembourg start-up behind the experiments, will then pop open a bottle or two for an out-of-this-world wine tasting in Bordeaux by some of France’s top connoisseurs and…
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