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May 29, 2015

Strange But True!

Q. Where might you get a truly “out-of-this-world” cup of coffee?

A. With the coffee-sipping crew of the International Space Station (ISS), who have started drinking “espresso” like posh cafe-goers, thanks to the recent delivery of an “ISSpresso” coffee maker, says Bryan Lufkin in Scientific American magazine. The first one built to work in microgravity conditions, it 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.” The all-white (colors are distracting) microwave-size, aerospace-aluminum appliance with adjustable tethers gets to brewing nicely — welcome indeed as astronauts experience days with 15 or 16 sunrises.


 
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