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Tony Antonelli : What’s that smell?

The space shuttle Discovery and its crew of seven have safely returned to Earth. But the one thing pilots can’t get out of their noses is space’s “weird” smell. “One thing I’ve heard people say before, but it wasn’t so obvious, was the smell right when you open up that hatch,” Live Science quoted Discovery pilot Dominic ‘Tony’ Antonelli, as saying after a March 21 spacewalk. “Space definitely has a smell tha t’s different from anything else,” Antonelli added. According to ex-NASA astronaut Thomas Jones, a veteran of three spacewalks, the odour could stem from atomic oxygen that clings to spacesuit fabric.

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