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ALBEIT YESTERDAY’S
COFFEE—Guest Blog by
MarketBusinessNews.com--Astronauts at the International Space Station will
soon have access to the first-ever space espresso coffee machine. This one uses
recycled urine which the space crew have dubbed “yesterday’s coffee”.
According to NASA, the 6th SpaceX cargo mission to the
International Space Station (ISS) launched last Monday (5-13-15) from Space
Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
The Falcon 9 rocket carried its Dragon cargo spacecraft to
ISS filled with over 4,300 pounds of supplies and payloads, including the
much-awaited espresso coffee machine designed for use in orbit.
The idea of a coffee maker in space came from Italian
astronauts Luca Parmitano and Paolo Nespoli, who quickly noticed there was no
espresso during their visit to ISS.
The device, called the ISSpresso, was designed and developed
by manufacturers Argotec and Lavazza.
According to Argotec, it is the first capsule-based espresso
system able to work in the extreme conditions of space.
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