Champagne in space: Zero-G bottle lets tourists drink bubbly

PARIS - Future space tourists may be able to toast the view from orbit with fine champagne, after designers came up with a high-tech bottle made for knocking back bubbly in zero gravity.

The Mumm champagne house teamed up with designer Octave de Gaulle, who has specialized in conceiving of everyday objects for the final frontier, to develop the space-age bottles.

Journalists from several countries were scheduled to try the champagne on Wednesday during a flight taking off from the French city of Reims, in the heart of champagne country.