article_snippet: Making cocktails in space is a difficult business, but now there’s a specially designed
article_snippet: A company called Cosmic Lifestyle Corp (CLC) in Oakland, California came up with the design - which is a work in progress - to solve the problem of drinking in space.
article_snippet: Nasa once developed ‘parabolic sherry’ and astronauts have been known to have a swig of vodka, but drinking from a conventional glass is difficult.
article_snippet: ‘the ISS are creating an open air drinking container that allows you to enjoy the aroma of the drink, yet keep the fluids under control.
article_snippet: The new design makes possible the enjoyment of espresso and other drinks in the low-gravity environments of spacecraft.
article_snippet: Drinks have typically bee consumed in plastic pouches in space.
article_snippet: This image shows a pouch of coffee attached to the ISS' new espresso machine .
article_snippet: Related tests to be performed onboard the ISS' this year include simple drinks such as clear juices, to complex drinks such as cocoa and peach mango smoothies.
article_snippet: Last year one Italian astronaut took an ISSpresso machine with one Italian astronaut to perk up the crew.
article_snippet: ’s one of several projects planned by the group who envisage an ISSpresso machine lifestyle products could be used by astronauts as well as future space tourists and colonists.
article_snippet: We are hoping to inspire the idea of a future when space hotels are in orbit and settlements are on other planets that people can relax and enjoy the experience of a quality drink, no matter what the gravity,’ the company said.
article_snippet: There have been many attempts to create cups capable of drinking liquids normally in space.
article_snippet: While a martini glass may be useful, arguably champagne and carbonated drinks remain the final frontier in space drinks because bubbles aren't buoyant in zero gravity conditions as they are on Earth and so behave in a strange way.