Astronaut demos drinking coffee in space
April 20, 2010
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When Dr. Don Pettit lived aboard the International Space Station in 2002, he became known for his “Saturday Morning Science” sessions, during which he would demonstrate really cool, simple microgravity experiments.
Earlier this month, Pettit returned to space, this time as member of space shuttle Endeavour’s crew on a mission to upgrade the outpost. After 10 days of hard work, the STS-126 crew got some time off Sunday morning and Pettit took the opportunity to film a special episode of Saturday, err, Sunday Morning Science.
In his video, which he later narrated for Mission Control, Dr. Pettit demonstrated his take on a zero-gravity coffee cup…
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Duration : 0:2:42
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@justinjiang
There …
@justinjiang
There are muscles in th throat which press the liquid down in the stomach
sorry for my bad english
im german
is the coffee …
is the coffee flying inside his throat, how did the coffee liqud reach his stomach without gravity
@JamieT96 I get the …
@JamieT96 I get the distinctly uncomfortable feeling that a vacuum cleaner with a really strange-looking attachment would be involved somehow.
Why does everything …
Why does everything look more tasty when it’s in space? I
how the do you …
how the do you take a really big in space
Do they feel the …
Do they feel the contents in there stomach rising up I wonder? Because at 1:53 it didn’t seem to go down well.
Wow. just wow.
Wow. just wow.
This is …
This is awesome!
Your muscles force …
Your muscles force it down.
looks like a …
looks like a gelatin to me
I wonder what …
I wonder what coffee, or any liquid, does in their stomachs. Just float around?
hahas
so funny : … 
so funny 
D
hahas
thats called the …
thats called the Nasa space programm you idiot…..
without it we wouldnt have satelites to watch tv or mobiles…..
Looks more like …
Looks more like Iced Tea
1:34 future space …
1:34 future space colonists….. STAR WARS IS COMING TO LIFE!!!!
@birdbrain666
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@birdbrain666
Nobody cares what you think
I invented coffee …
I invented coffee postits
lol if you find out …
lol if you find out please let me know lol hahaha
dunkins donuts …
dunkins donuts coffee,come on Nasa,lets give them the best
looks like the …
looks like the shittiest coffee ever.
This is where you …
This is where you guys tax money goes i guess. I want solar panels on my rooftop and on everybody’s rooftops with your tax dollars rather than the tax money funding what the we are watching!
I wonder what notes …
I wonder what notes they pick up in the coffee? Looks like a gel.
what happen when …
what happen when they farted? do they shoots away?
waht was that angle …
waht was that angle 2 times the waht????