- das ist anscheinend der Geruch des Weltraums. Die MIR hingegen roch nach dreckigen Socken.

Weltraumtouristin Anousheh Ansari:

"They said it is a very unique smell. As they pulled the hatch open on the Soyuz side, I smelled “SPACE.” It was strange… kind of like burned almond cookie."

Astronaut Jerry Linenger:

"Flying into MIR, it smells sort of like dirty sweat socks in a guys’ locker room. Actual smell of space, though, that’s a very interesting question. When we would open a hatch, for example, that was exposed to the vacuum of space, uh, there’s always a double hatch, and so you open the one hatch, you now have the pure smell of space. And it’s a uh, tough — you know, any aroma is tough to describe, but it has a distinct smell, and it’s sort of a burned-out, uh, after-the-fire, the next-morning-in-your-fireplace sort of smell. And that’s the real smell of the vacuum of space."

Über Mondstaub:

""It is really a strong smell," radioed Apollo 16 pilot Charlie Duke. "It has that taste -- to me, [of] gunpowder -- and the smell of gunpowder, too.""

Quellen:

http://spaceblog.xprize.org/
http://www.boingboing.net/
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2...ofmoondust.htm