Talk about out-of-this-world coffee! <\/p>\n
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Fifteen years ago International Space Station crew members were eagerly awaiting their first functioning toilet. Now low-orbit life is so routine that astronauts will be sipping espresso like posh caf-goers: the first coffee maker built to work in microgravity conditions arrives this month. ISSpresso is the product of a collaboration among the Italian Space Agency, Italian engineering company Argotec, and Lavazza, a 120-year-old, Turin-based coffee roaster. Astronauts will secure the microwave-size, aerospace-aluminum appliance to a station wall with adjustable tethers and then get to brewing (astronauts face days with 15 or 16 sunrises). The capsule-based system could eventually bring gourmet consomms, teas and soups to microgravity, Argotec's David Avino says. It's a food laboratory.\" <\/p>\n
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Read the original post: Talk about out-of-this-world coffee! Credit:Fil.AI\/Flickr Fifteen years ago International Space Station crew members were eagerly awaiting their first functioning toilet. Now low-orbit life is so routine that astronauts will be sipping espresso like posh caf-goers: the first coffee maker built to work in microgravity conditions arrives this month. ISSpresso is the product of a collaboration among the Italian Space Agency, Italian engineering company Argotec, and Lavazza, a 120-year-old, Turin-based coffee roaster. Continue reading
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