--- title: This Moonshine Distillery Plans to Launch a Bottle Into Space description: A Connecticut distillery wants to launch a bottle of moonshine into space. canonical: https://time.com/3832911/moonshine-distillery-space-launch/ author: Sam Frizell article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-04-23T15:22:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:19:02.140Z og:title: This Moonshine Distillery Plans to Launch a Bottle Into Space og:description: A Connecticut distillery wants to launch a bottle of moonshine into space. og:url: https://time.com/3832911/moonshine-distillery-space-launch/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1265d300b8311f7e/6987ec8406f2c19331337e14/onyx-moonshine.png?branch=production&width=908&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 908 og:image:height: 511 og:image:alt: onyx-moonshine og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Moonshine Distillery Plans to Launch a Bottle Into Space twitter:description: A Connecticut distillery wants to launch a bottle of moonshine into space. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1265d300b8311f7e/6987ec8406f2c19331337e14/onyx-moonshine.png?branch=production&width=908&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This Moonshine Distillery Plans to Launch a Bottle Into Space > Sponsored content. 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Employees of Onyx Spirits Company will fix the bottle to a weather balloon with a rocks glass and silver platter on May 2, and send it floating into space. The balloon will be equipped with GoPro cameras, GPS technology, a radar deflector, and a parachute to soften its landing into the Long Island Sound. “Onyx Moonshine is all about attempting things that haven’t been done before, which is the true essence of the American spirit,” Onyx Spirits Company co-founder Adam von Gootkin said Tuesday. With moonshine, perhaps there’s no such thing as flying too close to the sun. _\[_[_NBC_](http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/weird/Local-Distillery-to-Launch-Bottle-of-Moonshine-Into-Space-300865191.html)_\]_ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3832911/moonshine-distillery-space-launch/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3832911/moonshine-distillery-space-launch/"},"headline":"This Moonshine Distillery Plans to Launch a Bottle Into Space","datePublished":"2015-04-23T15:22:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:19:02.140Z","description":"Advertising goes to space","url":"https://time.com/3832911/moonshine-distillery-space-launch/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Bizarre"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1265d300b8311f7e/6987ec8406f2c19331337e14/onyx-moonshine.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sam Frizell","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1265d300b8311f7e/6987ec8406f2c19331337e14/onyx-moonshine.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"onyx-moonshine","caption":"","creditText":"Onyx Spirits","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3832911/moonshine-distillery-space-launch/","name":"This Moonshine Distillery Plans to Launch a Bottle Into Space"}}]}] ```