Italian astronaut to bring coffee to the ISS

(AGI) Rome, June 19 - Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti willtake coffee into space, Italy's ASI space agency chief RobertoBattiston announced on Thursday. Taking coffee into space "islike taking a piece of Italy into space", he said.Cristoforetti will fly to the International Space Station inNovember on board a Russian Soyuz rocket, to become the seventhItalian in space. (AGI) . .