French wine, vines headed home after year in space

(12 Jan 2021) French wine and vines are headed back to Earth after a year aboard the International Space Station.
SpaceX’s Dragon cargo capsule undocked Tuesday with 12 bottles of Bordeaux wine and hundreds of snippets of Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon vines.
The capsule is aiming for a splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico off the Florida coast Wednesday night.
It will return thousands of pounds of other science research and gear, including mice.
A Luxembourg startup flew the grape-based experiments for agricultural research.
The company will pop open a bottle or two in February for an out-of-this-world wine tasting in Bordeaux.  
Monday’s scheduled undocking was scrubbed because of weather conditions over the Atlantic.

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station houston onto all of physical
separation
visually confirmed
copy separation confirmed
and there you have it the second hooks
were open and physical separation
was success successful for undocking of
dragon
at 805 am central time
over the south atlantic ocean
nasa astronaut victor glover will be
monitoring today’s undocking
get it into the proper position away
from the station
for its eventual deorbit burn
currently scheduled for 7 18 pm central
time
that will slow dragon down enough to
drop it out of orbit and send it towards
its landing zone
splashing down in the atlantic
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