Cosmic caffeine: 宇宙飛行士s getting espresso 製造者
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) ― Talk about a cosmic caffeine 揺さぶる. The International Space 駅／配置する is getting a real Italian espresso machine.
宇宙飛行士s of all 国籍s ― but 特に the Italians ― have long 不平（をいう）d about the tepid instant coffee served in pouches and drunk with straws 260 miles above Earth. The pouches and straws aren't going away, but at least the brew will pack some 無-gravity punch.
The 特に-designed-for-space espresso machine is dubbed ISSpresso ― ISS for International Space 駅／配置する.
This undated 製品 image 供給するd by Argotec shows an ISSpresso machine . The final 見解／翻訳／版 of the coffee machine will be the first real Italian espresso machine on The International Space 駅／配置する, and will 同時に起こる／一致する with a six-month 使節団 by Italy?s first Italian 女性（の） 宇宙飛行士, Samantha Cristoforetti. (AP Photo/Argotec)
Its 開始する，打ち上げる 早期に next year from Wallops Island, Virginia, is timed to 同時に起こる／一致する with the six-month 使節団 of Italy's first 女性（の） 宇宙飛行士, Samantha Cristoforetti. The 37-year-old 闘士，戦闘機 操縦する and Italian 空気／公表する 軍隊 captain will 飛行機で行く to the space 駅／配置する in November 船内に a ロシアの 要約する／（宇宙ロケットの）カプセル.
She'll be the first out-of-this-world barista.
"How 冷静な／正味の is that?" she said in a tweet earlier this month. "I'll get to operate the first space espresso machine!"
Italy's century-old coffee maestro Lavazza teamed up with a Turin-based 工学 company, Argotec, and the Italian Space 機関 to 改善する coffee 条件s 船内に the 軌道ing outpost.
Besides espresso, ISSpresso is 有能な of whipping up tea and consomm?.
What more could an 宇宙飛行士 want?
During his 5?-month stay on the space 駅／配置する last year, Italian 宇宙飛行士 Luca Parmitano 繰り返して talked about 行方不明の espresso. (This is the 冷静な／正味の-as-ice 実験（する） 操縦する who nearly 溺死するd during a spacewalk last July when his helmet filled with water from his 控訴's 冷静な／正味のing system.)
Argotec already was working on a space espresso machine. 軌道の Sciences Corp. of Virginia will make the 配達／演説／出産 on its Cygnus 貨物 ship; the 開始する，打ち上げる is 的d for January.
航空宇宙局's coffee-loving 宇宙飛行士 Donald Pettit 現実に 申し込む／申し出d some ideas for ISSpresso during its design 段階. He's a two-time space 駅／配置する 居住（者） who invented and even 特許d a 無-gravity cup for sipping his 軌道の joe versus sucking it with a straw.
No question, an espresso machine will be "a welcome 新規加入" to space 駅／配置する life, Pettit said Wednesday from Johnson Space 中心 in Houston. The pre-手段d 捕らえる、獲得するs of 凍結する-乾燥した，日照りのd coffee served in 軌道 taste good ― when you're up there on the frontier, he said. On Earth, any coffee lover would go "Yeeck."
Argotec 広報担当者 Antonio Pilello has 見本d the ISSpresso espresso and gives it a thumbs-up. The space machine is designed to operate at the same 気温 and 圧力 as Earthly espresso 製造者s, によれば the company, to 保証（人） taste and flavor.
"You know, coffee is very important for Italian people. We are really hard to please about it!" Pilello wrote in an email.
Certified for safety and 認可するd by 航空宇宙局, ISSpresso 最初 will 飛行機で行く with 20 coffee 要約する／（宇宙ロケットの）カプセルs. Extra packets will follow for the six-member 乗組員, if the 裁判，公判 run goes 井戸／弁護士席. The 44-続けざまに猛撃する machine ― a compact 14 インチs by 17 インチs ― will be housed in the U.S. 研究室／実験室, 運命. It 似ているs a microwave oven, with all the 活動／戦闘 occurring inside.
Engineers 取って代わるd the typical plastic tubing in an espresso machine with steel for robustness. They also used buttons and switches 類似の to those already on the space 駅／配置する, so the 宇宙飛行士s would be familiar with the design.
宇宙飛行士 Pettit points out that the 欠如（する） of gravity will 妨げる the bubbly 泡，激怒すること from rising to the 最高の，を越す. Yet even if the space espresso 落ちるs short by connoisseur 基準s, "it would be the best coffee that we've ever had in space."
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This undated 製品 image 供給するd by Lavazza, shows a 原型 of Lavazza's and Argotec's "ISSpresso" machine. The final 見解／翻訳／版 of the coffee machine will be the first real Italian espresso machine on The International Space 駅／配置する, and will 同時に起こる／一致する with a six-month 使節団 by Italy?s first Italian 女性（の） 宇宙飛行士, Samantha Cristoforetti. (AP Photo/Lavazza)
This undated 製品 photo made from a ビデオ 供給するd by Lavazza shows a 原型 of Lavazza's and Argotec's "ISSpresso" machine. The final 見解／翻訳／版 of the coffee machine will be the first real Italian espresso machine on The International Space 駅／配置する, and will 同時に起こる／一致する with a six-month 使節団 by Italy?s first Italian 女性（の） 宇宙飛行士, Samantha Cristoforetti. (AP Photo/Lavazza)
This undated 製品 image made from a ビデオ 供給するd by Lavazza, shows a 原型 of Lavazza's and Argotec's "ISSpresso" machine. The final 見解／翻訳／版 of the coffee machine wi ll be the first real Italian espresso machine on The International Space 駅／配置する, and will 同時に起こる／一致する with a six-month 使節団 by Italy?s first Italian 女性（の） 宇宙飛行士, Samantha Cristoforetti. (AP Photo/Lavazza)
This undated 製品 image made from a ビデオ 供給するd by Lavazza, shows a 原型 of Lavazza's and Argotec's "ISSpresso" machine. The final 見解／翻訳／版 of the coffee machine will be the first real Italian espresso machine on The International Space 駅／配置する, and will 同時に起こる／一致する with a six-month 使節団 by Italy?s first Italian 女性（の） 宇宙飛行士, Samantha Cristoforetti. (AP Photo/Lavazza)
