In a stated effort to become the first beer on Mars, the company that makes Budweiser is shooting barley seeds up to the International Space Station that floats approximately 220 miles above the earth. Fulfilling a promise made at the South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas, last March, Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev) will send 20 of its own malting barley seeds up on a SpaceX CRS-13 rocket that launches from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on December 4. Barley is the primary source of malt in beer, which comprises one of the foamy beverage’s four main ingredients.
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