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What Does Space Smell Like? (2011)

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

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.

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.

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...

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

"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 :)

Blood?

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