Auction house offers red wine aged in space for sale
A bottle of wine aged in space is offered by the Christie's auction house in New York. It is one of twelve bottles of French red wine from the year 2000, which had spent 14 months on the International Space Station (ISS) between 2019 and 2021 - the first wine bottles with space experience, Christie's announced on Tuesday.
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The space excursion of the bottles was part of an experiment about how plants and plant products react to space conditions.
In an initial test in early March, experts found the wine to still be very good, but also "remarkably altered," the auction house said.
The bottle is offered for private sale, Christie's estimates the value at around one million dollars (about 830 000 euros). The proceeds are to be donated to space research./cah/DP/zb (dpa)
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