Wow, I thought this was a bad joke but I checked other sources and it's true. I guess it's another breakthrough the billions of dollars and Euros invested in manned space flight have given us.
How many cups of Espresso did the Mars Rover need?
Why not just have a bag with coffee in one compartment, a filter transecting the bag, and an input straw for water in the section containing coffee, and an output straw in the "brewed coffee" section? Fill compartment with hot water, shake, squeeze, enjoy your filter coffee. Not espresso, sure, but cry me a river.
This reads like "we made a pen that works in zero G".
While this is 90% an advert for Lavazza, the technology needed to cook food from raw ingredients in space is a worthwhile field of study. Once ingredients can be grown in space it becomes easier to sustain long missions without constant resupply.
Very interesting! One of my ideas for a venture is making coffee available for space travel. I can't imagine myself in a space ship with out my morning espresso.
TODOs: growing the plant in space ( radiation zero-g, etc), roasting, grinding and sadly, a zero-g cup ( unless this happens in a rotating habitacle with some g ).
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How many cups of Espresso did the Mars Rover need?
It looks like they developed the idea and then pitched the final product to the Agency hoping to get it aboard the IIS.
So While I'm sure it cost them money, it's not as likely to have been taxpayer money, making it a..."waste your money if you want too", type deal.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/international-space-station...
This reads like "we made a pen that works in zero G".
TODOs: growing the plant in space ( radiation zero-g, etc), roasting, grinding and sadly, a zero-g cup ( unless this happens in a rotating habitacle with some g ).
Anyone have any idea what would happen if one used something like an Aero Press while in space (enclosed in some sort of container probably)?