NEW YORK: Now the astronauts will be able to make hot, fresh coffee in space using a machine manufactured by Italian coffee company Lavazza, engineering firm Argotec and the Italian Space Agency. The ISSPresso was first shown off last year, and upon its arrival the machine will be strapped to the interior wall using bungee ropes.
NASA’s Scott Kelly and cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko will benefit greatly from the new machine, having just arrived on the ISS, where they will spend the next year.
A previous article published on SPACE.com stated that the machine has a brewing temperate of 75 degrees Celsius and is capable of replicating the water pressure of a terrestrial espresso machine. Lavazza wll continually make deliveries of coffee capsules so that astronauts can always get their caffeine hit.
