Posted on 05/04/2015 1:05:46 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti fired up the first espresso machine in space over the weekend. She posted a selfie on Twitter from the International Space Station on Sunday, sipping from a cup designed for use in zero-gravity.
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Cristoforetti, who returns to Earth next week after a six-month mission, almost did not get any space coffee. The experimental espresso maker, nicknamed ISSpresso after the space station’s initials, was scheduled to arrive in January but did not get to orbit until April because of a shipment backlog.
Lavazza, the Italian coffee manufacturer, and the engineering firm Argotec, which teamed up on the space espresso project with the Italian Space Agency, were thrilled to see their 250-mile-high results. “Today the International Space Station feels a little more like home,” Lavazza tweeted.
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I’m surprised they could even pretzel 4 women in there... I am kind of surprised we had 4 women up there at the same time too.
Must be the galley...where she makes the samiches and coffee for the men.
{LOL]
They should have made it a tad bigger, IMO
What’s not to like?
She’s sipping an Espresso with the beautiful blue earth above here, watches sunrise and sunset ever 1 1/2 hours.
Only thing better would be a glass of Tuscan Chianti before a nice Zero-G nap!
Who wouldn’t like the cupola? That’s the best viewing spot save for being outside on an EVA that they can have on board the ISS. If I went there, that’s where I’d spend the majority of time. The view would be FANTASTIC!
No, it's worse than that... you go outside and it's colder than a witch's tit, your eardrums and eyeballs feel like they are going to burst, and your blood start to boil... then you see the icing on the cake... the sign they put up on the outside the space station next to the hatch...
Going clockwise from the top we have Tracy Caldwell-Dyson,
Naoko Yamakazi, Dottie Metcalf-lindenber, and Stephanie Wilson. A record for women in space at one time.
I hope the Lavaza espresso machine works out better than the Wolowitz toilet.
Yes it is! Those are as large as they thought they could make the windows. (until that new stuff hits production I guess)
cool!
But with the new Kerbal Space Program, we can try to surpass that.
:p
Italian Astronaut....speciman
This case however..speciwoman
That’s a Star Trek uniform she’s wearing........
After 6 months in space she's gonna be hornier than all get out........And pumped up on Espresso? OMG!
An Affogata please ...
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