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ASTRONAUTS WORKING IN the International Space Station will be getting better quality coffee in their workplace later this year.
The Italian Space Agency will be sending up the first espresso machine, designed specifically for operating in zero gravity, to the station in November.
Dubbed ISSpresso (geddit?), the machine will be made by the Italian espresso maker Lavazza so the quality will be better than the instant coffee that’s been brought up to the station in the past.
The engineering company Argotec, which is contracted with the European Space Agency to provides spacefood to the ISS, is also helping with the project.
The machine uses capsules to make the espresso, which Lavazza says helps to brew the drink in a zero gravity environment. The coffee is then served in a sealed pouch, allowing the astronauts to sip the coffee through a straw, but the machine will serve other hot drinks like tea if required.
The espresso machine is currently being tested at Argotec’s labs and will be brought up by Samantha Cristoforetti, who will become the first Italian woman in space.
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Jeez, first Italian woman in space and she’ll be expected to serve coffee as soon as she arrives! Please god they don’t send her up there on Mother’s Day.
I hear NASA are making a coffee machine also for their astronauts, It only makes pints of overpriced watery coffee.
With the Golden arches on the disposable cup
Or mermaid.
Coffee is just like smoking. It’s absolute gak, and people only start doing it because they think they are cool, then they get hooked and can’t do without
No!
Yes
Don’t ruin coffee for us. Please.
Clearly a Barry’s tea drinker pffftt
I agree, Stan. Coffee-breath is disgusting, worse than cigarettes.
I’m pretty sure smoking was invented by coffee drinkers to give them something to do when everyone else had gone to sleep.
Coffee breath doesn’t give people horrible respiratory diseases to third parties. At least give us that.
The Yanks won’t be getting any of it…
First world problems: A space station without an espresso machine.
Christ imagine the joy when they get a condom machine
omg
Your comment just raised a million questions
They’re up there for months
I wonder if they…
I’m sure there’s a manual up there.
‘You’re Guide To Sex under Zero Gravity”
I got some expresso from lidal and discovered you need to have an expresso machine but i dont have one
Maybe eat it? No point letting it go to waste,
*Espresso.
Sorry, but that is one thing that absolutely boils my blood.
Let it cool down before you drink it then
Barry, if you look in your local community you’ll find that there are lots of resources available to help you with anger management nowadays.
Cheap at €2k a shot…
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