While the average 1911 can be produced in a few hours, the Moonshot was the result of hundreds of hours of design and testing and took two years of painstaking work to create.
Built with precision and engineering, the heirloom quality/museum-grade Moonshot1911 is handcrafted with precious stones & crowned with a lunar meteorite.
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Christie’s Private Sales Presents Space-Aged Pétrus 2000 Read Next For the first time, a bottle of space-aged wine is for sale. On 2 November 2019 Space Cargo Unlimited, in partnership with Thales Alenia Space and Nanoracks, sent 12 bottles of wine to the ISS for 14 months aboard a Cygnus capsule (Northrop Grumman), before returning to Earth on 14 January 2021 aboard a Dragon spacecraft (SpaceX). The bottle of Pétrus 2000 spent 14 months aboard the International Space Station (ISS) aging in a carefully monitored and controlled environment, as part of a series of experiments undertaken by Space Cargo Unlimited, a one-of-a-kind European “New Space” start-up.
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Space exploration and wines have nothing in common, but there is one bottle that dared to go where no other bottle has been. Space, the final frontier for wine.
A bottle of Bordeaux aged in space is expected to sell for $1 million A bottle of Bordeaux wine that was aged for 14 months on the International Space Station (ISS) is up for sale and it could fetch $1 million. The Château Pétrus 2000 was part of an experiment carried out by start-up Space Cargo Unlimited to see how conditions in space affect wine. Auction house Christie’s said in a statement that it is offering the bottle for immediate sale, rather than at auction, and the proceeds will be used to fund future space missions. Tim Triptree, Christie’s international director of wine and spirits, told CNN the sale is expected to make in the region of $1 million.