Astronomy Video: Sipping Coffee from Unusual Mug in Weightless Space

From Denny: Did you see this video yet? An astronaut sips coffee from an unusually designed mug to accommodate weightlessness in space. He explains how the mug works to enable an astronaut to drink coffee without resorting to the old school way of sipping out of a plastic bag. They use this mug design for rocket fuel tanks too. Really interesting; take a listen!



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Astronomy: Watch NASA's launch in streaming video

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STS-119 Landing (Discovery)

Current Status (1st opportunity): Go

De-orbit Burn: 12:33 EDT

Landing Time: Saturday (28 Mar 09), 13:39 EDT

Primary Landing Site: KSC

Second Attempt if necessary: 15:14 EDT @ KSC

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Here are a couple of links to streaming video from NASA-TV for those who either don’t get it on satellite/cable or can’t otherwise watch.

They will have lauch video too. A link is provided on the right of this page for the future.

Note: Likely best viewed with broadband.

NASA-TV

Real Media

Windows Media Player

NASA TV from United Space Alliance using Real Media.