The Smell of Space


	The Smell of Space

splendidus

2-14-2008 3:45 PM

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2-14-2008 9:28 PM

constantskeptic

wouldn't that be from the cosmic radiation interacting with the semi-metallic suits?

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/59444122-c503-4edd-9607-dfbc74b95024/FBBD66C2-2C86-4BAB-8482-DCB693B2B5A5/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/crew/exp6/spacechronicles4.html" href="http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/crew/exp6/spacechronicles4.html" style="font-size: 11px;">spaceflight.nasa.gov</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/crew/exp6/spacechronicles4.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/spaceflight.nasa.gov/img/FD06024B-576A-4A4C-B4CA-212A36EB269A" alt="IMAGE: ISS Science Officer Don Pettit assists STS-113 spacewalker John Herrington." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/crew/exp6/spacechronicles4.html">ISS                         Science Officer Don Pettit assists STS-113 spacewalker 
                        John Herrington.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/crew/exp6/spacechronicles4.html">Few people 
              have experienced traveling into space. Even fewer have experienced 
              the smell of space. Now this sounds strange, that a vacuum could 
              have a smell and that a human being could live to smell that smell.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/crew/exp6/spacechronicles4.html">Each time, when I repressed the airlock, opened 
              the hatch and welcomed two tired workers inside, a peculiar odor 
              tickled my olfactory senses. At first I couldn't quite place it. 
              It must have come from the air ducts that re-pressed the compartment. 
              Then I noticed that this smell was on their suit, helmet, gloves, 
              and tools. It was more pronounced on fabrics than on metal or plastic 
              surfaces.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/crew/exp6/spacechronicles4.html">It is hard to describe this smell;</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/crew/exp6/spacechronicles4.html">The best description I can 
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