You'll soon know how space smells

According to Discovery News, NASA hired a chemist who specializes in creating scents to reproduce the scent of space. For this, the professional will rely on the descriptions offered by astronauts who have been in orbit and were lucky - or not! - to smell that peculiar odor.

And don't think this will be an easy or pleasant task. According to those once in space, its pungent aroma is reminiscent of burnt steak, hot metal, gas from the weld, gunpowder, rum and raspberry. In other words, space stinks!

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The chemist - Steve Pearce - was hired by NASA thanks to his resume. He was the one who recreated the smell of the MIR space station for an exhibition on impossible aromas, describing the bodum as a mixture of stinky foot odor and body odor mixed with nail polish remover and gasoline. Or almost that!

According to a researcher consulted by Pearce, the stink that astronauts feel when they are in space is actually produced by the high energetic vibration of particles brought in by them as they enter space stations, which eventually mix with the interior air and pervade the space. environment.

Source: Discovery News