{"id":5696,"date":"2009-09-13T09:26:47","date_gmt":"2009-09-13T09:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allsense.com.au\/?p=227"},"modified":"2009-09-13T09:26:47","modified_gmt":"2009-09-13T09:26:47","slug":"smell-of-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allsense.tecnotia.com\/au\/smell-of-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Smell of Space"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Strong and metallic – for NASA engineer and astronaut Gregory Chamitoff, who is on board US space shuttle Discovery, that is what the final frontier smells like. ”<\/p>\n

There is one smell up here that is really unique though and that is the smell, we just call it ‘the smell of space’. “I haven’t had a chance to do a spacewalk yet … but when the other guys did and they came back in … there’s this really, really strong metallic smell. “It’s really cool.”<\/p>\n

For rookie astronaut Kevin Ford, Discovery’s pilot, both the sounds and smells of space have surprised him. “It’s like … something I haven’t ever smelled before, but I’ll never forget it,” Space.com reported him saying.<\/p>\n

“You know how those things stick with you.”<\/p>\n

Read full piece at http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/technology\/sci-tech\/smell-of-space-strong-metallic-and-unique-nasa-astronauts-say-20090907-fddm.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Strong and metallic – for NASA engineer and astronaut Gregory Chamitoff, who is on board US space shuttle Discovery, that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scent-in-the-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsense.tecnotia.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsense.tecnotia.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsense.tecnotia.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsense.tecnotia.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsense.tecnotia.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/allsense.tecnotia.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsense.tecnotia.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsense.tecnotia.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsense.tecnotia.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}