Public-private partnership to bring the authentic Italian espresso into the International Space Station (ISS).
Created: 2018-11-27
Updated: 2021-01-08
Service
- Classification
- In-Space Manufacturing
- Category
- In-Space Manufacturing
- Fields
- Food for Space
- Status
- 2) Demonstrated
- First launch
- 2015
- Partners
- Lavazza, Italian Space Agency (ASI)
In fact, the crew has successfully tested the capsule-based espresso machine ISSpresso created by Argotec for Lavazza — in a partnership with the Italian Space Agency (ASI) — which on 3 May 2015, during the Italian Futura mission, allowed Samantha Cristoforetti to drink the first espresso in micro-gravity conditions inhistory.