--- title: The International Space Station Is Getting an Espresso Machine description: The lattes will be out of this world canonical: https://time.com/2878830/iss-espresso-machine-isspresso/ author: Nolan Feeney article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-06-15T19:32:38.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:10:46.539Z article:section: Science og:title: The International Space Station Is Getting an Espresso Machine og:description: The lattes will be out of this world og:url: https://time.com/2878830/iss-espresso-machine-isspresso/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The International Space Station Is Getting an Espresso Machine twitter:description: The lattes will be out of this world twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # The International Space Station Is Getting an Espresso Machine  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Jun 15, 2014 7:32 PM UTC  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Jun 15, 2014 7:32 PM UTC The International Space Station is 240 miles above earth, but that doesn’t mean astronauts don’t have a hard time getting up in the morning — after all, they can make a run to the stars, but not a run to the Starbucks. But the ISS is about to get a little caffeinated pep in its one-small-step-for-man, in the form of [ISSpresso](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx45rg8Q-Cw&feature=youtu.be), its very own, customized espresso machine. Italian coffee brand Lavazza teamed up with aerospace engineering company Argotec to design the device, which will be the first machine designed to withstand travel when it arrives at the space station later this year as a part of the Italian Space Agency’s Futura Mission. When it connects, astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti won’t just become [the first Italian woman in space](http://www.lavazza.com/en/media-center/pressreleasedetail/58dae66d-f246-11e3-b615-c90c8a507add/) — she’ll likely be the first person in space to sip an Italian espresso. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2878830/iss-espresso-machine-isspresso/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2878830/iss-espresso-machine-isspresso/"},"headline":"The International Space Station Is Getting an Espresso Machine","datePublished":"2014-06-15T19:32:38.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:10:46.539Z","description":"The lattes will be out of this world","url":"https://time.com/2878830/iss-espresso-machine-isspresso/","keywords":["Space Exploration","Newsfeed","Caffeine"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/space-exploration/","name":"Space Exploration"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2878830/iss-espresso-machine-isspresso/","name":"The International Space Station Is Getting an Espresso Machine"}}]}] ```