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What Does Space Smell Like? (2011) (popsci.com)
34 points by benryon on March 3, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 13 comments


I know someone with experience on the ISS. Said it smelled like a gym changeroom and hot electronics. I guess kinda like my bedroom.


Well that's on par for a small-ish metal tube full of hairless apes and lots of fancy space electronics. Whereas the article is talking about the lingering gas particles floating about the universe.


That is a pretty terrible combination, especially considering you're stuck there for days/weeks at a time. Hopefully you get used to it after a couple hours.


TIL that when astronauts are outside the ISS, space-borne compounds adhere to their suits causing a distinctive scent when they return to the station. The smell is so unusual that NASA reached out to a top fragrance maker to re-create the odor for its training simulations.

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/fcjqgx/til_t...



"Though a pure, unadulterated whiff of outer space is impossible for humans (it's a vacuum after all; we would die if we tried)"

Not immediately. Jim LeBlanc has survived a brief full decompression accident in 1966. Still it's probably not possible to smell anything that way.


What Does %s/Space/Other Astronomical Bodies/ Smell Like


Astronaut Chris Hadfield says it smells like burnt steak. [0]

  [0] https://youtu.be/t6rHHnABoT8


Somebody, please invent Smell-o-scope :)


Well, according to the documentary Futurama, we'll have them by the 31st century at least.


YOU WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER WHERE YOU WERE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieddjSFFuCU


lol, you beat me to it :)


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