Zero-G Coffee Cup by Don Pettit
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There will be problem for you to have a drink of any liquid such as coffee in space with weighless environtment. But NASA astronaut Don Pettit figure it out this problem. He was invented Zero-G Coffee Cup. With this cup, you don`t need to be worried to enjoy your coffee experience. You just drink your coffee as it is, with Zero-G Coffee Cup instead of traditional strew.
If With hot coffee, it could be a potentially scalding affair in the space. So astronauts use silver pouches and plastic straws to sip anything from water to orange juice to Pettit’s beloved space java.
He used a piece of plastic ripped from his Flight Data File mission book and folded it into a teardrop-shape that’s closed at one end. Surface tension inside the cup keeps the coffee from floating out and running amuck.
“We can suck our coffee from a bag, but to drink it from a cup is hard to do because you can’t get the cup up to get the liquid out, and it’s also easy to slosh,” Pettit told Mission Control while sending a video of his new invention to Earth. Pettit arrived at the space station last week aboard the shuttle Endeavour, which is delivering a recycling system that converts urine into drinking water and other new gear to outfit the space station for large, six-person crew.
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