Coffee In Space?

On a Saturday morning I woke up, and went outside to feel the warm air that told me it was time for summer. It was a beautiful day, and I never wanted to be inside. The sky was almost clear. There were no clouds visible, and I wondered that at night I would be able to see all of the stars which made me exciting after so many rainy days. That’s when I remembered that I had a lot of work to do, so I walked up to my room, and started doing homework. I had totally forgotten about reading a news that day, so I went online, and found an interesting news. Coffee in space?

The news was really funny. It was about an astronaut that’s been working on a space ship in space, and one of the things that she had missed the most was coffee. She had been trying to make coffee in space, but since the coffee was prepared in an instant coffee machine, it didn’t have the real taste of coffee. She has been waiting on the shipment of an espresso machine for more than three months. I could feel her excitement about the coffee machine when I was reading the news. I would have felt totally the same. I think that coffee is a vital drink that makes people happy. I wouldn’t be able to stand the space without coffee. I am not one of those people that depend on coffee, but I can say that I really like coffee. However, I don’t drink coffee because it wakes me up, but because I like how it tastes. Also, coffee never works at waking me up in the mornings, especially if it’s a Monday morning.

Back to the news… Another thing had also captured my attention. The coffee machine was made in Italy just for her. I believe that it’s a great idea to design and create the machine in Italy, since it shows that the espresso machine has high quality. The only thing that was shipped wasn’t just an espresso machine. Other food, and drinks were shipped, too, but in the news the most significant one for the astronaut was obviously the espresso machine. The astronaut seemed pretty exciting about the coffee machine. One of the sentences she said was “Lots of science and even coffee's in there, so that's pretty exciting.” I think that it’s a great act what NASA has done. It shows that NASA doesn’t only care about how astronauts complete their missions, but if they are comfortable doing that. I can’t imagine how hard it can be being away from earth for a long time. I bet people in space miss a lot of things from earth; just like a simple thing as coffee. With this news I’ve learned something. We are all humans, and no matter what we can always miss little things that we might not find important, and that make our lives better, just like coffee for an astronaut who has been in space for more than five months.