This Startup Sent Red Wine to the International Space Station for Ageing

A European startup named Space Cargo Unlimited recently sent twelve bottles of wine along with Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply spacecraft to the International Space Station.

Earlier you make wild guesses, no this is not meant for astronauts to have a chilled party at the infinite station. Instead, these are meant for scientific purposes. The project called "Vitis Vinum in Spatium Experimentia", aims to written report the effects microgravity and infinite radiation could cause on the aging process of wine.

The wine will be left isolated in the space station for the next twelve months at a abiding temperature of around xviii degrees Celsius. The researchers volition exist analyzing the samples one time these space wines are brought back to world after a yr to annotation the changes.

On a commercial bending, these space wines could be sold at premium prices to the wealthiest. However, as TechCrunch reports, the company is "following in the footsteps of Louis Pasteur" to experiment with these space vino samples for hopefully making a breakthrough in the food preservation industry.

Well, that does not mean that there are no plans for business with this mission. It is just that the primary goal of the company is to experiment. A Quartz report details the company'southward concern model equally follows: "The inquiry volition exist paid for in part by a luxury goods partnership that will deliver a customized chest full of objects flown to space to ultra-wealthy sponsors, chosen patrons, who dorsum the projection. The highlight of that chest will be a bottle of the wine."

So, do you lot anticipate a future where space wines are considered a luxury? Tell us your thoughts in the comments.