how do you drink in space – Touchdown Zone

Question: how do you drink in space
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  drink
Asked by kknight123 to Vinita, Kirsty, Col Op, Charlie 🚀, Andrea on 14 Jun 2016. This question was also asked by 344tch27.
- Charles Laing answered on 14 Jun 2016:
  
  Hi kknight123,
  
  Drinking is done from pouches and with a straw but there are some engineers looking at how to create a space cup.
  
  This is actually quite a challenge as you can’t tip the cup to pour out the liquid. However, water molecules are cohesive and this means they tend to stick together so engineers can use this property to design a special cup to allow astronauts to enjoy a proper cuppa in a proper cup! 🇬🇧😉
  
  Charlie 😀🚀
- Andrea Boyd answered on 15 Jun 2016:
  
  Watch Tim Peake answer this with style! 😀 😀
  
  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/space/12097135/British-Astronaut-Tim-Peake-shows-how-to-drink-water-in-space.html
- Columbus Operations answered on 23 Jun 2016:
  
  Charles is right, usually you drink using straws. But when Samantha Christoforetti, being Italian, went to ISS, she had special designed espresso cups (for the espresso machine called ISSpresso 🙂 ), which used the cohesive forces Charles mentioned to let crew dring espresso from actual cups instead of straws.
  
  You can see her with an espresso here: http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-050415a-isspresso-coffee-space-station.html

Question: how do you drink in space