Coca-Cola will be the first soft drink to orbit Earth.

Space shuttle astronauts will soon carry Coca-Cola into orbit for the first time thanks to a new high-tech “space can” that cost the soft-drink company more than $250,000 to develop, company officials said. The new can is the first container capable of dispensing carbonated beverages in the weightlessness of space, they added. Liquids now taken into space are non-carbonated and are carried in small plastic serving pouches and sipped through straws. Officials with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said that Coke could be aboard shuttle flights as early as July.

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