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09-06-2009, 01:22 PM
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09-06-2009, 01:45 PM
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09-06-2009, 01:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Metro St. Louis | | | I thinking there may be a smell because the space station is in a pretty low orbit. That is probably why the smell is like ozone.
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09-07-2009, 04:13 AM
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"From the [spacewalks] there really is a distinct smell of space when they come back in," Ford said from the station in a Friday night news conference. "It's like...something I haven't ever smelled before, but I'll never forget it. You know how those things stick with you."
In the past, astronauts have described the smell of space as something akin to gunpowder or ozone.
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My uncle used to "work" in nuclear submarines and he said that after 3 months underwater they would pop the hatch in port and the air smelled like rotting garbage for a few days until they got used to it. He said it didn't matter where in the world port was, it always smelled that way.
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09-07-2009, 06:39 AM
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09-07-2009, 03:20 PM
| | | | How can there be a smell in space when everything up there to smell is brought up from earth? |
09-07-2009, 03:29 PM
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It would be the worst kind of fart ever: you couldn’t deny it, you couldn’t escape it, and the smell would stay with you all the way back to the space station.
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09-07-2009, 03:31 PM
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09-07-2009, 08:55 PM
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Originally Posted by hbarcat  My uncle used to "work" in nuclear submarines and he said that after 3 months underwater they would pop the hatch in port and the air smelled like rotting garbage for a few days until they got used to it. He said it didn't matter where in the world port was, it always smelled that way. | Thats crazy. |
09-08-2009, 12:31 AM
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09-08-2009, 09:19 AM
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Originally Posted by hbarcat My uncle used to "work" in nuclear submarines and he said that after 3 months underwater they would pop the hatch in port and the air smelled like rotting garbage for a few days until they got used to it. He said it didn't matter where in the world port was, it always smelled that way. | Why though? |
09-08-2009, 10:26 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Anaheim, Ca. | | | Maybe the "low orbit" had something to do with it or maybe not... The moon is certainly not in a low-earth orbit, and "Buzz" Aldrin of Apollo 11 fame also made comments about the "smelly" moon as soon as Neil and him returned to the L.E.M. from the first moon walk. He implied the smell was similar to "gunpowder" or even a bit like "ozone". |
09-08-2009, 01:48 PM
| | | | Ok, how in the hell can you smell space when everything is sealed and all air is recycled? Your not smelling space air cause there isn't any air in space, your smelling the material your suits made out of and the space craft and whatever they use to recycle the oxygen..
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09-08-2009, 02:01 PM
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Originally Posted by spencer Ok, how in the hell can you smell space when everything is sealed and all air is recycled? Your not smelling space air cause there isn't any air in space, your smelling the material your suits made out of and the space craft and whatever they use to recycle the oxygen..
Am I right or right am I? | Sorta. I'm presuming the astronauts are speaking of a scent that is different than the same equipment prior to it going out the hatch. Yes, one of the smells would be the recently decompressed or generated air that repressurized the chamber. But I can certainly see how the microdust from stuff burning up in the atmosphere and other chemical reactions (ozone, again) might leave some particulates that one's nose might detect. Same thing for moon dust. After they repressurized the LM, they were still standing in suits covered with dust. And it might be suit materials after exposure to cosmic and solar radiation; they may be breaking down.
As for farts, I would presume that most suits have charcoal filters that would absorb one pretty quickly. Most air is scrubbed then recycled. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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