Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti on tweeting from space and brewing the first zero-g espresso
Samantha Cristoforetti is an Italian astronaut with the European Space Agency. She currently holds a few spaceflight records — including being the first person ever to brew an espresso in space.
In 2014 and 2015, Cristoforetti spent 199 days aboard the International Space Station, where she performed a variety of scientific experiments. She studied generations of fruit flies to chart gene changes in relation to disease; she looked after Caenorhabditis elegans worms used in a Japanese-led experiment; and she tended to plants to study how they grow in microgravity.
Cristoforetti was supposed to return to Earth in May 2015, but her stay on the ISS was extended to June after a cargo ship…
