The first-ever batch of diamonds to leave the planet has landed after an 18 million mile journey orbiting Earth, IDEX Online reports.
The batch, made up of natural and lab-grown diamonds, blasted off on Elon Musk’s SpaceX-26 from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, in November 2022 and landed in the robotic Dragon capsule off the coast of Tampa, Florida, on January 11.
They will “now be numbered, laser engraved and documented by the American Gem Society Laboratory as having been in space, according to the report. The batch belongs to Dianna Rae Jewelry from Lafayette, Louisiana, and their prices will range from $745 to $2 million.
For instance, a simple gold band with a 0.10-carat lab-grown diamond that was in space (of SI2 clarity and G-H color or better) and two smaller stones that weren’t, is priced at $2,745.
