Cricketscoffee Blog: Espresso in space. Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano once voiced his disapproval regarding traveling in outer space to the International Space Station. His main complaint? Lack of decent espresso. * * * When I was growing up, my mom only drank Maxwell House and Folgers. The smell of that percolated coffee wafting through air was nice to wake up to. But then the Cubans