Fascinating!, Anyone wanna take a stab at maiking a 'space for men'
aftershave?? :)
I propse getting some ethanol adding some burnt wood, some allende and
viola eau 'd espace! (tm) - now that would be slightly better than
rugby players sweat aftershave!! (which I might add is actually for sale
in New Zealand!)
LoL
Mark
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From: meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com
[mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of
Sterling K. Webb
Sent: 12 October 2006 04:19
To: Dave Freeman mjwy; Meteorite-list
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Burn't cookies not off topic
Hi, Dave, List,
I read (not heard) her statement:
"The time went by really slowly, but finally
the moment arrived and they were ready to
open the hatch. Mike and Misha called me
closer and told me to take a good whiff
because this would be the first time I would
smell 'SPACE.'
They said it is a very unique smell. As
they pulled the hatch open on the Soyuz side,
I smelled 'SPACE.' It was strange. kind of
like burned almond cookie. I said to them,
'It smells like cooking' and they both looked
at me like I was crazy and exclaimed: 'Cooking!'
I said, 'Yes. sort of like something is
burning. I don't know it is hard to explain.' "
Anousheh Ansari isn't the first to describe
outer space as smelling like something burnt.
In a 2001 "Fresh Air" interview, NASA astronaut
Capt. Jerry Linenger describes the smell of space
this way:
"Flying into MIR, it smells sort of like dirty
sweat socks in a guys' locker room. Actual
smell of space, though, that's a very interesting
question. When we would open a hatch, for
example, that was exposed to the vacuum
of space, uh, there's always a double hatch,
and so you open the one hatch, you now
have the pure smell of space. And it's a uh,
tough - you know, any aroma is tough to
describe, but it has a distinct smell, and it's
sort of a burned-out, uh, after-the-fire, the
next-morning-in-your-fireplace sort of smell.
And that's the real smell of the vacuum of
space."
It is said that lunar samples, when first exposed
to the Earth's atmosphere, have a "burnt" smell.
Sterling K. Webb
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Freeman mjwy" <dfreeman at fascination.com>
To: "Meteorite-list" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 5:32 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Burn't cookies not off topic
> Dear List;
> The lady space traveler (first space tourist) just back from space a a
> private traveler is on Oprah at this very moment and she said that she
> was told that the space station smelled like outer space, the lady
said
> it smelled like burn't cookies.....
> .
> Are they baking cookies in the space station or is there anything to
> this story?
> Got milk?
> Dave F.
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