A closer look
SpaceX launched a giant wheel of Le Brouere cheese into low Earth orbit during the maiden flight of their Dragon spacecraft in 2010. Elon Musk and his engineering team placed the dairy product inside a top-secret containment vessel bolted to the floor of the capsule as a deeply nerdy homage to a classic Monty Python sketch about a cheese shop. Millions of dollars in rocket fuel, cutting-edge aerospace engineering, and decades of scientific research culminated in shooting a literal block of fermented milk into the void of space, proving that no amount of billionaire wealth or advanced physics can suppress the insatiable human urge to execute an elaborate, incredibly expensive shitpost
