Cheers! French wine heads home after space adventure

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida－The International Space Station bid adieu on Tuesday to 12 bottles of French Bordeaux wine and hundreds of snippets of grapevines which spent a year orbiting the world in the name of science.

SpaceX's Dragon cargo capsule undocked from the station with the wine and vines along with thousands of kilograms of gear and research, including mice.

It was expected to splash down on Wednesday in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Tampa. The Atlantic had been targeted, but poor weather shifted the arrival to the other coast of Florida. SpaceX's supply ships previously parachuted into the Pacific.