'We've all had Space Ice Cream...this takes it a step further.'
You'll never get a whiff of it directly — but astronauts have long said that space leaves a distinctive residual smell on their suits. Though it varies with the teller, some say it evokes gunpowder, burned meat, and even raspberries.2002 NASA blog post
. "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." Now, that smell is coming down to Earth. Omega Ingredients, a UK-based natural flavors company for the food and beverages industry, has created a fragrance that it claims smells like space.Kickstarter campaignOmega founder Steve Pearce was first contracted by NASA to recreate a fragrance that smells outer space back in 2008,"NASA's goal of simulating Space during training is to eliminate any surprises Astronauts might experience in Outer Space," the Kickstarter description reads.
"The best description I can come up with is metallic; a rather pleasant sweet metallic sensation," Pettit wrote. "It reminded me of pleasant sweet smelling welding fumes. That is the smell of space."likening the odor to the smell of gunpowder"Space definitely has a smell that's different than anything else," Discovery pilot Dominic "Tony" Antonelli said after a spacewalk in March 2009, as.
The smell does seem to largely depend on the nose of the beholder. Over the decades, astronauts have also likened the smell to o-zone,
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