In a 1st, spl champagne bottle tested in space

A soft pop in space could soon spark a bubbly Big Bang. For the first time, a specially designed champagne bottle — the

Mumm Cordon Rouge Stellar

— is being tested aboard

International Space Station

by the Axiom-4 crew. Part technological feat, part cultural milestone, the bottle marks a new chapter in human spaceflight.Crafted through collaboration between

Axiom Space

and French champagne house Maison Mumm, the space-certified bottle is the product of design firm Spade Agency.“At Axiom, we believe the future of spaceflight is not just about reaching new frontiers — it’s about making them liveable, meaningful, and human,” the company said. “The testing of a champagne bottle specially designed for Ax-4 marks a major

cultural moment in space

.”Spade founder Octave de Gaulle said designing for orbit means confronting technical extremes and emotional distance.

“With Mumm Stellar, we weren’t just solving a problem of pressure or weightlessness, but preserving something meaningful in orbit,” de Gaulle said.Next up: cooking in orbit. Axiom and Spade are collaborating on the galley for the upcoming Axiom Station, a modular commercial outpost under development.