While this is 90% an advert for Lavazza, the technology needed to cook food from raw ingredients in space is a worthwhile field of study. Once ingredients can be grown in space it becomes easier to sustain long missions without constant resupply.
Wow, I thought this was a bad joke but I checked other sources and it's true. I guess it's another breakthrough the billions of dollars and Euros invested in manned space flight have given us.
How many cups of Espresso did the Mars Rover need?
Very interesting! One of my ideas for a venture is making coffee available for space travel. I can't imagine myself in a space ship with out my morning espresso.
TODOs: growing the plant in space ( radiation zero-g, etc), roasting, grinding and sadly, a zero-g cup ( unless this happens in a rotating habitacle with some g ).
Why not just have a bag with coffee in one compartment, a filter transecting the bag, and an input straw for water in the section containing coffee, and an output straw in the "brewed coffee" section? Fill compartment with hot water, shake, squeeze, enjoy your filter coffee. Not espresso, sure, but cry me a river.
This reads like "we made a pen that works in zero G".
