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This was Samantha Cristoforetti's post on Twitter as she posted a selfie of her becoming the first person to make and drink a cup of coffee at the International Space Station.
Making coffee in space is not as easy as it sounds. In no gravity, coffee from the machine can squirt out in any direction, which could be dangerous since the coffee is normally heated to 94 degrees C!
The espresso machine used in space was a specially-made, 44-lb machine of steel built to withstand the pressure in space. When the coffee is ready, it is transferred into a pouch by a machine so the coffee won't spill, then astronauts drink through a straw.
For regular people, this isn't big news. For coffeeholics like me, it's history!
Click here for the video!
This was Samantha Cristoforetti's post on Twitter as she posted a selfie of her becoming the first person to make and drink a cup of coffee at the International Space Station.
Making coffee in space is not as easy as it sounds. In no gravity, coffee from the machine can squirt out in any direction, which could be dangerous since the coffee is normally heated to 94 degrees C!
The espresso machine used in space was a specially-made, 44-lb machine of steel built to withstand the pressure in space. When the coffee is ready, it is transferred into a pouch by a machine so the coffee won't spill, then astronauts drink through a straw.
For regular people, this isn't big news. For coffeeholics like me, it's history!
Click here for the video!