April 24, 2026
Coffee company Lavazza teamed up with the engineering firm Agrotec and the Italian Space Agency to create a device that can make espresso in zero gravity. It was flown to the International Space Station in 2015 and is commonly called the ISSpresso machine.
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Will a Suction Cup Work in Space?
No, it won’t. We’ve all seen pictures of astronauts walking in space, and they are always prevented from drifting away from the spaceship to their death by a tether of some sort. But if you want to avoid getting tangled up in a tether, why not just use a suction cup? The problem is the lack of air
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