reckon this scene from the not - so - remote time to come : You are floating weightlessly aboard a commercial spacecraft . You are gazing down at the Earth in wonder , twitch yourself for being rosy enough – and rich enough – to achieve your womb-to-tomb dream of leaving the atmospheric state .
So , what do you do to fete ? Thanks to Gallic house decorator Octave de Gaulle , you might have the classic option of fuddle bubbly .
concord to a report byAFP , the bubbly company Mumm enlisted de Gaulle to create the world ’s first zero - gravity feeding bottle of bubbly .
The current prototype , which is the result of three years ' Charles Frederick Worth of evolution , is a two - chamber container that houses anexclusive bubbly varietalin the upper percentage and a finger - controlled valve bond in the lower portion . When the two half are connected , the valve uses pressure from the CO2present in the wine to spurt small amounts out of the top of the bottle in the form of froth .
A strip of aluminum that arches over the scuttle catches the result froth sphere to prevent them from flying all over the ship – an outcome that would waste perfectly good bubbly and potentially terms multi - million - dollar equipment . A special long - halt glass resemble a stretched - out egg cup is then used to scoop the spheres from the air and direct them into the mouth , whereupon the froth wrench back into liquid .
" It ’s really magic because the champagne lands not just on your tongue but on the palate , the cheek – the gastronomic wizard are magnified , " astronaut Jean - Francois Clervoy secernate the news agency .
Clervoy is head of Novespace , the companionship that operates Airbus Zero - G planes for European Space Agency training missions and experiments . These planes journey high into the atmosphere then plump downward for several second , creating a abbreviated zero - gravity surround when theplane is in freefall . A typical two - hour flight involves several of these “ parabolical ” climbs and plumb bob , but the entire time in lightness is only about five minute . ( Every daytime citizenry looking to receive the closest thing to infinite travel currently on offer can also take an Airbus Zero - G flight for€6,000 ( just under $ 7,000 ) a pop .
Mumm team up with Novespace to promote the outer space - quick champagne in a special demo flight that accept place yesterday . Journalists from several countries were invited to board an Airbus Zero - G pull up stakes from the French city of Reims , one of the body politic ’s champagne capitals . During the period of freefall , they tested de Gaulle ’s contraption and taste the wine inside .
Considering that past freefall planes were dubbed “ barf comets ” by the astronauts who trained on them , we are curious to know how adding alcohol into the premix played out on the journalists ’ stomachs .
Per AFP , though the blank space tourism industry has not yet taken off , Mumm is already offering their concept to the primal player such as Virgin Galactic and Jeff Bezos ’ Blue Origin .
