NASA astronaut Scott Kelly says he’s settling into his epic yearlong mission to the International Space Station, thanks in small part to the orbiting lab’s new coffee machine.
Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko began the first-ever one-year mission aboard the space station on March 27. Kelly said life away from Earth can be a challenge, but he and the station’s other five crewmembers are getting along well.
He specifically cited the contribution made to crew morale by the station’s “ISSpresso” machine, which arrived with SpaceX’s Drago cargo capsule last month.
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