May 5, 2021
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Christie’s is offering a space-aged bottle of fine French wine, which was part of a case of Bordeaux that was literally matured in Earth orbit for 14 months, for private sale, with the auction house estimating it could fetch up to $1 million.
The proceeds will go to Space Cargo Unlimited, a private European rocket company that launched 12 bottles of Petrus 2000 to the International Space Station in November 2019 as part of a series of viticulture and microgravity experiments. After nearly 440 days in orbit, or about 186 million miles (300 million kilometers), the dozen bottles of Petrus were returned to Earth in January this year aboard a SpaceX cargo capsule.