What does space smell like ?

I think i smell it too....oh wait it's BS never mind

Does that mean no one can test the smell of space?? Actually its no one can smell vacuum Thanks B???

Actually its no one can smell vacuum Thanks B??? You are correct B??? Heres an article from the Godard Space Flight Center, To experience the vacuum is to die, but not quite in the grisly manner portrayed in the movies Total Recall and Outland. The truth of the matter seems to be closer to what Stanley Kubrik had in mind in 2001: A Space Odyssey. According to the 1966 edition of the McGraw/Hill Encyclopedia of Space, when animals are subjected to explosive decompression to a vacuum-like state, they do not suddenly balloon-up or have their eyes pop out of their heads. It is, in fact, virtually ... [More]

Ummm couldn't they just bring in some samples from outside bring them in open them up and have a wiff of what space smells like?

You know this is such a simple thing, yet some of you try making it so HARD. Makes me wonder how common "Common Sense "really is!

well- ill take one for the team, if i realy wanna smell space. id be out there- open my mask up and take a big wiff(lol-0ops) but isnt that why space is a vacuum- lack of all that we can percieve. i think space smells like *space, absolute nothing. with that said- what does nothing smell like- im sure its not steak,.

The metallic smell is the iron in their own blood that was microwaved by radiation while they were outside the shuttle. The steak smell was from their own brain baking in the same fashion. Space is a vacuum and has no smell of its own. We smell our self cooking and think it is space.

I think one of the astronauts on board liked to cut the cheese wherever he pleased. That's just nasty, but probably it

I wonder how long before we can purchase a designer cologne based on the smell of space? I can almost see the ads now; Star Dust by Calvin Klein.

Ummm couldn't they just bring in some samples from outside bring them in open them up and have a wiff of what space smells like? Actually Silver, space consists largely of nothing...no air, no appreciable matter at all (i.e. vacuum), so it can't have a scent. There can't be a scent to nothing. What is being referred to has typically been smelled upon opening the airlock hatch and retreiving EVA crewmen who've been on EVA for 6 to 7 hours outside. The scent is ill-defined, yet very distinctive. It's often described as a metallic scent. I think this scent is essentially suit material, which has ... [More]