Everything that goes into space, sniffing special expert

Nose rescuing zhizni

George Aldrich - not an expert on space travel, or the construction of shuttles, however, it performs one of the most important tasks in NASA - the agency did not send into space if it is not smelled. Master sniffer, also known as "Nozdryadamus» (Nostril-damus), has defended hundreds of astronauts, just sniffing things that are placed in the spacecraft.

Aldrich sniffing everything, and even the fact that the rest seems repugnant. He has an excellent sense of smell from childhood, but his special talent was discovered only 40 years ago. He was a firefighter in White Sands, when NASA started looking for volunteers Beezer. Aldrich extremely well in the calibration of the test, which was to determine the seven basic odors - musk, mint, floral, ethereal, camphor, hot and putrid.



Since then, Aldrich works for NASA at the test site White Sands, where it reigns supreme nose. The work may seem comical, but how important is it? As it turns out, really. "In fact, astronauts may get sick from bad smell" - says Aldrich. And so it is: in 1976, the Soviet mission had to be aborted because the astronauts could not tolerate the stench inside the shuttle.



According to Susan Harper, manager of NASA's bow lab work Aldrich is invaluable for astronauts. "Here on Earth, unpleasant odor, for example, if someone was in the bathroom and cut onions, eventually disappears, - she explains. - Smell forces withdraw supply of fresh air, but on the space station or shuttle of the air there. It is impossible to open the window and ventilate. What we need to do here on earth, - make sure that we do not ship to the new smells, because as soon as they appear there - do not get rid of them ».

During his long career Aldrich sniffed more than 780-year-different materials, and it is not going to stop working soon.

via factroom.ru