Endeavour shuttle astronaut Don Pettit sips coffee from a zero-g cup of his own invention during the STS-126 mission to the International Space Station.

So much so that they hired Jose Patiño, formerly a sous chef at The Coffee Cup, to be head chef at The Perfect Coffee. The restaurant is open seven days a week from 6 a.m. until 3 p.m., for now.

So it comes as no surprise that he found a way to drink coffee from a cup, instead of the traditional straw, on his day off Sunday aboard the international space station. IE 11 is not supported.

The Space Needle's owner, a private company, believes the coffee shop's logo copies a trademarked design, and filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court. AP Photo/Ted S. Warren SEATTLE — The Seattle ...

This cup was designed to sip coffee in space, where low gravity creates problems with fluids. It currently costs $500 to 3-D print in the transparent plastic. courtesy portland state university.

Here’s How Coffee Cups in Space Could Help Save Lives on Earth. 2 minute read. Six Space Cups as delivered to NASA January, 2015 for the Capillary Effects of Drinking in the Microgravity ...

A local Seattle coffee shop is being sued for allegedly co-opting an illustration of the city’s Space Needle. The Speed Needle, which is owned by a private company, has accused Local Coffee Spot ...

Of all the science done aboard the space station, this latest discovery might be the most ground-breaking yet. It’s a space cup that lets you drink real space coffee, in space.

Or, to be more exact, a cup of really good espresso—the only part of home that Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano said in 2013 that he really missed during his stay on the International Space Station.

A team of researchers at Portland State University has developed a coffee cup that gives astronauts in space an earth-like drinking experience by driving liquid towards the mouth. The Space Cup ...

In space you don’t sip, you suck, from a bag. ... An earlier version of this story stated that Don Petit developed his zero-gravity coffee cup in the 1990s. He designed it in 2008.