Sipping Coffee from a Cup in Zero Gravity


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We've previously featured the neat videos of astronaut Don Pettit showing how a CD player becomes a gyroscope in space, adding Alka-Seltzer to a spherical drop of water, showing the Aurora Borealis from space, and drinking drops of tea with a pair of chopsticks. In this video, Pettit shows how it's possible to sip a coffee in zero gravity from a specially-designed lidless cup.

via The Presurfer | Biography of Pettit

Very interesting...physics...blah blah blah

HOW WEAK IS THAT COFFEE!!!??? These are astronauts...in SPACE? They probably worked like dogs their entire lives to get there, can't we get them a better cup of joe?

I guess NASA has to cut their costs somewhere, but I bet Starbucks would pay a hefty fee to be "The Coffee of Astronauts".
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