Designer Octave de Gaulle has wrapped a glass bottle in an aeronautical-grade aluminium shell for French champagne house Maison Mumm, to allow champagne to be drunk in space.
Maison Mumm created the Mumm Cordon Rouge Stellar champagne, which will be served on privately-owned space exploration company Axiom Space's flights, to be "the first champagne bottle and tasting experience designed for space travel and human spaceflight".
It will be contained in a bottle designed by De Gaulle, who is the founder of an agency that specialises in designs for space named SPADE, with technical support from the French space agency Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) and the Comat design office.
Mumm Cordon Rouge Stellar was designed to be the world's first space champagne The "high-tech" bottle was designed to face space-specific issues including how champagne behaves in the absence of gravity, while still adhering to the regulations set by Champagne AOC ? the drink's regulatory commission.
The regulations state that champagne has to be stored and transported in glass and corked with a traditional "mushroom" cork.
In response, the Mumm Cordon Rouge Stellar is contained in a 375-millilitre glass bottle that is secured by a stainless-steel opening and closing device. It sits inside a shell made from aeronautical-grade aluminium, which was designed to protect the bottle.

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