Being aboard the International Space Station gives astronaut Jack Fischer an excuse to play with his food — making mundane drinks like coffee much more fun.
“I love coffee on Earth,” he said on NASA TV in a Q&A session with elementary-school students. “But in space, I get to make balls out of it…and then suck the balls. Very cool.” In this clip, he squeezes a bag, and unappetizing brownish balls of liquid squirt from the straw. Fischer guides the hovering spheres to his face and slurps them up.
What does @Astro2fish like to eat in space? pic.twitter.com/RK2FC4IcDA
— NASA Education (@NASAedu) June 9, 2017
Basically, liquid coffee coalesces into gooey-looking balls in microgravity because water molecules are happiest when they’re s...
