Space smells like iron and meat

American scientists have learned the secret for a long time, excite the minds of scientists all over the earth: which is actually the smell of space. However, the responses of people who have visited orbit, only experts puzzled. According to the astronauts, space smells like meat and metal.

"When I was on the ISS, I felt the aroma of roasted steak, the smell of hot metal and welding fumes" - describes his feeling of one of the members of the expedition to the International Space Station, Tony Antonelli. According to him, this smell is difficult to compare anything.

His colleague, Thomas Jones, returning from the International Space Station, said that in addition to the listed Antonelli odors aboard the station, he always felt particularly clean air, incomparable with anything, and flavors "weak pungent odor" than tonapominayuschego-sulfur. Another astronaut - Don Pettit - adds: "Every time I turn on the pumps pumping at locks, opened the hatch and welcomed inside the people, a peculiar odor tickled my sense of smell».

In NASA astronauts following statements decided to start playing "space smell", but in the world, and even hired for this purpose a special employee.

via factroom.ru