SpaceX Delivered Death Wish Coffee to Astronauts in Low Earth Orbit

The International Space Station receives the most amazing food delivery since the early days of Uber Eats. The recent launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket destined for the ISS carried genetically identical mice, a spherical IA robot named Cimon, and Death Wish Coffee – the strongest coffee in the world – at the behest of Serena Aunon-Chancellor, one of the floating astronauts Earth.

The strongest coffee on earth is now the strongest coffee in the solar system.

The Northeast New York State company has created a soothing beverage without gravity for its members on the 56th Expedition aboard the ISS. The coffee contains 472 milligrams of caffeine, more than twice the caffeine of a Starbucks Pike Place roast, 13 times more than a can of Coca-Cola and four times more than a Red energy drink. Bull

Enjoy the freshness of hot coffee aboard the International Space Station for designing and patenting an espresso machine (called the espresso machine) and the Zero-G coffee cup to facilitate their morning ritual.

European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti is waiting next to the new ISSpresso coffee machine. The espresso machine allows crews to prepare tea, coffee, broth or other hot drinks. (NASA)

Not having to drink coffee from a bag is a big deal for astronauts. Any coffee lover will tell you that being able to smell good coffee is an important factor in tasting coffee. Astronaut Don Pettit was one of the many who were fed up with coffee bags. So he designed a prototype cup using a clear transparent film in a teardrop shaped container and poured coffee. The design worked.

Yes, this kind of overhead transparencies

The Zero G coffee cup helps to incorporate the aroma of coffee into the flavor. The edge of the cup uses surface tension to wet the liquid on the side of the cup wall, using the same principles that NASA uses for zero gravity fuel tanks … and the ISSpresso machine.

The Zero-G coffee cup approved by NASA. Get yours at Spaceware.

Previously, astronauts used coffee brewing (ie spill style) to experiment with fluid dynamics. While the Death Wish Coffee is not the first cup of freshly brewed coffee in the space, it still claims to be the strongest. Astronaut and Air Force astronaut Kjell Lindgren used the coffee to test how fluids could be transported into the space without a pump.

Lindgren and researchers from the Portland State University go even further and develop a single serving coffee brewing system that brews inside the cup.

All those who are deployed will tell you that little things make time memorable. To be deployed in a low Earth orbit is no different.