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British Astronaut Answers Very British Question With Even More British Answer

British astronaut Tim Peake discusses what it’s like to drink tea in outer space.

Katie Felber
By Katie FelberJan 19, 2016
Katie Felber
Katie Felber is a writer, comedian, and rapper based in Los Angeles by way of the Pleiades star cluster nearly 444.2 light years away. She first interned for GOOD back in '07 and made her mark by keeping the office stocked with tons of organic and affordable snacks. After graduating from UC Berkeley in 2010 with a B.A. in Rhetoric and Film Studies, she spent a couple years in the trenches of Hollywood producing comedy and avoiding reptilian shapeshifters at all costs. Her writing has been featured in Huffington Post, Thought Catalog, several hundred napkins in the Bay Area, and now recently, GOOD! When she is not pondering the philosophical distribution of space in Yogurtland and other mainstream food chains, she can be found alone in her room, blasting thousands of snapchats out to her wide network of virtual friends, or hitting up doctors on Tinder for free medical advice.
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European Space Agency astronaut Tim Peake is the first British ESA astronaut and the sixth person born in the United Kingdom to visit the International Space Station. In this engaging interview, Peake speaks with the media for the first time.

In addition to discussing his workload, adaptation process, and the attributes of the space station, Peake answers reporters’ burning questions about the quality of tea in outer space.

Skip ahead to 13:33 for his response:

This interview was recorded live from the ESA’s astronaut center in Cologne, Germany. The International Space Station is a microgravity laboratory in which an international crew of six people live and work in space while traveling at a speed of 5 miles per second, orbiting Earth every 90 minutes.

Want to see the space station in plain view? You don’t even need a telescope! Right now, it’s the third-brightest object in the sky. Type in your city and state here, and you can receive a text message alerting you when the station is approaching. Houston? That’s pretty cool.

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