So This Is What Space Coffee Brewed With Pee Looks Like

So This Is What Space Coffee Brewed With Pee Looks Like

Good to the last drop! NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly has posted this photo of a perfect ball of orbital coffee on Facebook. (And on Twitter. And on Instagram.)

This tiny bowling ball is a large drop of freshly brewed espresso sitting peacefully at the end of a drinking straw in the form of an exquisite sphere thanks to the microgravity environment, where free floating liquids can take shape of a perfect three-dimensional object, one of the most accurate human-made spheres.

I guess the world’s most expensive coffee — the Kopi Luwak, made of beans eaten and defecated by the Asian palm civet — has a new rival. Coffee made onboard the International Space Station using water from the water recycling system of the space station — including recycled human urine — is definitely more unique and much more expensive.


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