Fridges... in... Spaaaaaaace: Engineers book ride on the Vomit Comet to test astro-refrigerator
It's floaty floaty vom time as boffins plan prototype cooler spin on modded 727 Richard Speed Fri 16 Apr 2021 // 16:33 UTC Share Copy Boffins are set to get a ride on the Zero Gravity Corporation's "weightless research lab" to test a refrigerator designed for jaunts to orbit, the Moon or even Mars. The engineers from Purdue University, Air Squared and Whirlpool are working on a refrigerator that will function in different orientations as well as the one more suited to domestic kitchens on Earth. The idea is to give astronauts access to food not necessarily freeze-dried...
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