WITH WHAT HOPES TO BE LEARNED FROM WINE IN SPACE. REPORTER: ONBOARD THIS UNMANNED LAUNCH IN FEBRUARY TO RESUPPLY THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION ARE A NUMBER OF EXPERIMENTS, INCLUDING SOME GRAPE JUICE FROM MICHAEL DAVID WINERY IN LODI >> THE OWNER SAT NEXT TO A GENTLEMAN WHO INFORMED HIM ON AN AIRPLANE THAT THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION WAS TAKING PROJECTS FROM THE PRIVATE SECTOR. THE OWNER CAME TO THE WINEMAKING TEAM AND ASKED US TO COME UP WITH A PROJECT. REPORTER: THE LOCAL TEAM HAD ONLY A FEW DAYS TO SUBMIT THEIR IDEA. >> AND IT WAS A PROJECT I HAD FROM GRADUATE SCHOOL AND IT WAS MORE OF A CONTINUATION OF LOOKING AT THE MICROBIAL LOADS AND HOW THEY COMPARE IN A FERMENTATION ON EARTH COMPARED TO BEING UP IN SPACE. REPORTER: SPACE STATION SCIENTISTS CAME BY TO CHECK OUT THE PROPOSAL JEFF: AFTER WE WENT OVER THE DETAILS WITH THEM THEY LIKED IT A LOT BECAUSE THEY ARE GROWING FOOD UP ON THE SPACE STATION SO THIS FIT INTO HAVING PERISHABLE FOODS UP IN SPACE AND THIS FITS INTO THE WHOLE PLAN OF HAVING FRESH FOODS UP IN SPACE. MOST OF THE KIND OF FOOD ARE PACKAGED. REPORTER: THERE IS A LOT MORE SCIENCE INVOLVED OTHER THAN JUST FERMENTATION IN ZERO GRAVITY, AND WINE TASTERS AT THE WINERY WERE CURIOUS WHILE SIPPING WHAT’S DRINKABLE DOWN HERE, NOW NANCY: I THINK ITS VERY EXCITING AND IT’S A WONDERFUL ADVENTURE ESPECIALLY COMING FROM LODI, CALIFORNIA. THAT’S AWESOME. >> IT WILL BE OUT OF THIS WORLD. REPORTER: THE WINEMAKER HAS BEEN TOLD TO KEEP AN OPEN MIND WHEN THE JUICE RETURNS TO LODI. JEFF: WE WERE TOLD TO EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED,SO WE SENT UP SOME GRAPE JUICE. REPORTER: ROCKETING INTO THE SPACE-AGE IS EXCITING >> ULTIMATELY THEY WOULD LIKE TO POPULATE SPACE MAKE IT A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE CAN LIVE, AND IF THIS PROJECT CAN PROVIDE ONE I FEEL PRETTY PRIVILEGED T