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“We take gravity for granted,” Pettit said. “Generally, we are unaware of the weight of our hands, or how easily we pour coffee into a cup. We don’t stop to think, ‘Will the coffee rise up and pour out?’ or ‘Can we pour the coffee?’ We just do it. Gravity handles this for us by applying force to the coffee, pulling downward.”
Samantha Cristoforetti, an astronaut with the European Space Agency, has revealed how she made her morning coffee without the help of gravity during her time on the ISS.