What do you think drinking coffee from space should feel like? Unlimited igable shots with our Earth as background and enjoying sunrise and sunset every 90 minutes?

Drinking real coffee in space is the holy grail of astronauts and terrestrial engineers that have gone through multiple breakthroughs.

Earlier coffee was the freeze-dried kind, however, if you like your coffee with milk and sugar, they need to know the exact ratio you like beforehand and then premix everything in the lab for your onboard journey. Not only you have to decide on which flavors and with or without milk before your journey, you can't even drink in a cup. Microgravity environments make drinking coffee from a normal cup impossible. You either have to drink from a pouch or stick your tongue in the scorching liquid.

Could you brew your own coffee and do a pour over? Well no...before the ISSpresso, brewing was a daunting task as coffee grounds are hazardous in space and you can't possibly drip your coffee by pouring water. ISSpresso is a machine designed to brew espresso in space from pods, not very unlike the kind we have on Earth. Together with the development of a new Space Cup which astronauts can drink through capillary action, that was the sacred moment when real coffee was experienced in space and in the process we gained invaluable knowledge on fluid dynamics in space that would help future explorations.

Merely a cup of coffee? Think twice when you sip on your favourite drink!