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Beer In Space

Posted by michael on from the long-neck-squeeze-bottles dept.

Saint Aardvark writes: "Check it out...NASA recently sent up an experiment to see how well beer could be brewed in space. The result? One millilitre of space brew. Can orbital microbrew be far behind?" They've been making great strides since our first Beer in Space article.

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  1. Re:Just don't let it go to their head. by dsplat · · Score: 3, Funny
    You can imagine what the ISS would be like with a couple of tipsy astronauts/cosmonauts, etc.


    When you get drunk on a space station, does the room stop spinning?
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  2. Re:HEY! by darkonc · · Score: 3, Informative

    My tax dollars are paying for WHAT???
    Your tax dollars may be subsidizing it, but the experiment was apparently paid for by a grant from Coors. It went up in one of NASA's commercial experiment packs.

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