Towards putting a bottle of champagne into orbit in the International Space Station
Published on September 4, 2024
After three years of research and development, in 2018 G.H.MUMM Champagne will be offering "Mumm Grand Cordon Stellar", a bottle designed to be enjoyed in a weightless environment. From 2019, the project will enter a second phase. The aim now is to meet all the safety requirements for taking bottles of champagne on board the ISS, where Thomas Pesquet has already spent two periods of time, in 2017 and 2021. Gérard Liger-Belair and Octave de Gaulle explain in the latest issue of the Oenologues magazine how much attention has been paid to the temperature dependence of the pressure inside the bottle. At the end of this second four-year phase, the new 'Mumm Cordon Rouge Stellar' bottle finally meets the CNES's safety and technical compliance requirements for the next full-scale test on board the ISS.
