NASA is in the process of upgrading the ISS's solar power system by adding six iROSAs to the lab's eight existing U.S. Crewmate Bowen, with red stripes around the legs of his spacesuit, is visible at top right. Hoburg, center, holds onto a rolled-up 750-pound iROSA solar blanket while the space station's robot arm carried them both to the installation site at the base of a degraded original-equipment array. EDT, officially kicking off the 264th spacewalk devoted to ISS assembly and maintenance and the seventh so far this year. a reddish acid that comes from plants, is used in making ink and leather, and occurs in various foods and drinks (such as wine)Ĭorkscrew – n.Two astronauts ventured outside the International Space Station Friday and installed the fifth of six roll-out solar array blankets - iROSAs - needed to offset age-related degradation and micrometeoroid damage to the lab's original solar wings.įloating in the Quest airlock, veteran Stephen Bowen, making his ninth spacewalk, and crewmate Woody Hoburg, making his first, switched their spacesuits to battery power at 9:25 a.m. a very small difference in color, tone, meaning, etc. to change or develop slowly often into a better, more complex, or more advanced state : to develop by a process of evolution the curved path that something (such as a moon or satellite) follows as it goes around something else (such as a planet)Įvolved -n. a public sale at which things are sold to the people who offer to pay the most Dan Novak adapted the story for VOA Learning English. Steve Gorman reported this story for Reuters. The purchase also includes a set of glasses and a corkscrew made from a meteorite.Ĭhristie's says the sale price could reach $1 million. One sold at auction for $51,660 in 2018.Ĭhristie's is selling a bottle of the space-aged wine, along with a bottle of the original Earth-aged Petrus 2000. The wine investment company Vinovest says a bottle of Petrus 2000 usually costs about $5,366. "It is beautiful and nuanced, with fine tannins and a sense energy." The space bottle “seems more evolved than I would expect from a 21-year-old bottle of Petrus 2000," Anson said in Decanter. She and the other two experts thought there was a clear difference between the two. Jane Anson is a leading wine critic and a writer for the wine magazine Decanter. Top wine experts compared the space-aged wine with Petrus bottles that stayed on Earth.
The wine returned to Bordeaux, where a bottle was opened for a taste test at the Institute for Wine and Vine Research. They spent almost 440 days, and about 300 million kilometers, in orbit. The bottles were taken back to Earth in January. It launched the 12 bottles of Petrus 2000 in November 2019, and flew them to the International Space Station. The company has experimented with viticulture and microgravity. The money from the sale will go to the European rocket company, Space Cargo Unlimited. He said the bottle adds to a “greater understanding of the maturation of wine.” Tim Triptree works for Christie’s wine and spirits division. The sale was announced Tuesday in London. It is considered a world-class red wine made from Merlot grapes in the Pomerol region of Bordeaux. Now, it has returned to Earth to be sold.Ī single bottle from a case of space-aged Bordeaux is being put up for sale by the auction house Christie’s. For 14 months, a French wine aged in space.
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