Space Coffee, Just the Way You Like It 147
Zothecula writes "Since the early days of space travel, a consistent complaint has been lousy coffee. Now a group of freshman engineering students at Rice University have developed a simple approach to alleviating this problem. From the article: 'The challenge was to develop a method and equipment that allows astronauts to add liquid ingredients (cream, sweetener, and lemon juice) from a foil package to another that contains black coffee or tea. No spills in microgravity can be allowed, as these have a tendency to migrate into equipment and cause faults. The Rice freshmen designed their system around the existing black coffee pouches. NASA supplied them two-ply heat sealed pouches to hold the sugar syrup and cream. The beverage and condiment pouches all have a septum which allows access to their contents without allowing any of the liquid contents to escape.'"
Someone should tell Chris Hadfield (Score:5, Informative)
"No spills in microgravity can be allowed, as these have a tendency to migrate into equipment and cause faults. "
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMtXfwk7PXg [youtube.com]
Re:I think I can spot the problem... (Score:2, Informative)
And here, kids, we have a perfect example for the use of the term 'non sequitur'.
Re:The Russians used a pencil! (Score:4, Informative)
The point he was trying to make is that NASA are misdrecting their resources. Not that this coffee is meant for the moon.