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Posted: 6/4/2020 10:45:42 PM EDT
If you dock at the ISS, and they first open the hatch, what's the 'house' odor?
I'm thinking porta-potty and MRE entree. Amiright? |
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Apparently rhe yesrs of bo funk is so bad there's special training as part just to get used to it.
I .ean would it kill them to open a window once in a while |
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I think I read the place is just full of bacteria and fecal matter. The largest complaint about prolonged space travel is no shower.
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US astronauts drink recycled urine aboard space station but Russians refuse
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/26/us-astronauts-recycled-urine-international-space-station |
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I am sure it is quite unique, with a veritable blended bouquet of scents.
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NASA astronaut Scott Kelly has revealed the ISS smells like jail, citing the similarities in their 'combinations of antiseptic, garbage, and body odor. ' 'I was touring the Harris County Jail, and there's this room that smells like space station - combination of antiseptic, garbage, and body odor,' he said.
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Probably like a well used port-a-Jon that’s sitting in the middle of the desert.
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I did an event where Mark Kelly was speaking at. He talked briefly about it and said it's one of the things they don't talk about much. He said it's like an old gym. He said one time they had a bunch of mold growing on a wall and NASA couldn't figure out how to get rid of it. The whole wall was covered with it.
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It smells terrible, but Mir smelled worse.
They actually feared for astronaut/cosmonaut safety from the air quality of mir towards the end. |
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Former NASA Astronaut Explains How Hygiene Is Different in Space | WIRED |
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Quoted: US astronauts drink recycled urine aboard space station but Russians refuse https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/26/us-astronauts-recycled-urine-international-space-station View Quote When you think of it, we are all drinking water that the dinosaurs, cavemen, every living creature has consumed and expelled since life on earth existed. |
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Gonna smell like some BO... Gotta remember no one can really take a true shower.
But when a capsule docks and opens the hatch they aren't gonna smell it. Air has to be pushed in microgravity. |
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I have a friend who stayed on the ISS. When he told me how they take shits, I was scarred for life.
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Quoted: NASA astronaut Scott Kelly has revealed the ISS smells like jail, citing the similarities in their 'combinations of antiseptic, garbage, and body odor. ' 'I was touring the Harris County Jail, and there's this room that smells like space station - combination of antiseptic, garbage, and body odor,' he said. View Quote Touring, huh? Yeah, sure. |
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Astronaut Chris Hadfield Debunks Space Myths | WIRED |
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Quoted: US astronauts drink recycled urine aboard space station but Russians refuse https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/26/us-astronauts-recycled-urine-international-space-station View Quote So presumably the Russians drink fresh water that they send up and then they piss it out and then Americans drink it? At least we can send astronauts up in our own rockets and hopefully at some point soon they will be able to take a drink of water that hasn’t come from a Russian dick. |
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Piss shit bo and chemicals
Supposedly space smells like gunpowder |
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@Domnior
He was on two shuttle launches. So they wear a diaper for launches and it takes several hours before they take off, if there are delays. Sometimes if you have to shit or piss you go in your diaper while laying on your back. Then on the ISS when they first get in the station is smells like ass mixed with BO for awhile until your nose gets used to it. For taking dumps, they shit into this plastic bag that has suction added to it because of Zero G. You squat over this bag and when you're done you use either your gloved hand or a pair of specially engineered poop scissors to cut your log. Then you wipe yourself down with wet wipes and pack it all up. He said pissing is tricky because you have this personal nozzle thing that has a hose with suction that you hold up against yourself to piss in but you have to be careful because you can have piss bubbles floating around which you try to suction up. For showers they use wetwipes and dry shampoo on their hair. He also did 2 or 3 spacewalks which he said was probably some of the most amazing experiences he has ever had. |
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Don't they ever purge the air? Like put everyone in space suits one day, de-pressurize the station slowly until there is no air left, then re-pressurize with some tanks that they send up with another rocket.
Problem solved, for a little while at least |
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Quoted: NASA astronaut Scott Kelly has revealed the ISS smells like jail, citing the similarities in their 'combinations of antiseptic, garbage, and body odor. ' 'I was touring the Harris County Jail, and there's this room that smells like space station - combination of antiseptic, garbage, and body odor,' he said. View Quote That shit haunted my dreams |
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Quoted: @Domnior He was on two shuttle launches. So they wear a diaper for launches and it takes several hours before they take off, if there are delays. Sometimes if you have to shit or piss you go in your diaper while laying on your back. Then on the ISS when they first get in the station is smells like ass mixed with BO for awhile until your nose gets used to it. For taking dumps, they shit into this plastic bag that has suction added to it because of Zero G. You squat over this bag and when you're done you use either your gloved hand or a pair of specially engineered poop scissors to cut your log. Then you wipe yourself down with wet wipes and pack it all up. He said pissing is tricky because you have this personal nozzle thing that has a hose with suction that you hold up against yourself to piss in but you have to be careful because you can have piss bubbles floating around which you try to suction up. For showers they use wetwipes and dry shampoo on their hair. He also did 2 or 3 spacewalks which he said was probably some of the most amazing experiences he has ever had. View Quote That sounds like apollo bags, i believe the space shuttle did have more of a toilet as does the iss. They keep the appollo bags for backup |
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Quoted: Don't they ever purge the air? Like put everyone in space suits one day, de-pressurize the station slowly until there is no air left, then re-pressurize with some tanks that they send up with another rocket. Problem solved, for a little while at least View Quote That wouldn't get the smell out of the surfaces and the toilet full of shit and cargo ships full of trash. |
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Quoted: That sounds like apollo bags, i believe the space shuttle did have more of a toilet as does the iss. They keep the appollo bags for backup View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: @Domnior He was on two shuttle launches. So they wear a diaper for launches and it takes several hours before they take off, if there are delays. Sometimes if you have to shit or piss you go in your diaper while laying on your back. Then on the ISS when they first get in the station is smells like ass mixed with BO for awhile until your nose gets used to it. For taking dumps, they shit into this plastic bag that has suction added to it because of Zero G. You squat over this bag and when you're done you use either your gloved hand or a pair of specially engineered poop scissors to cut your log. Then you wipe yourself down with wet wipes and pack it all up. He said pissing is tricky because you have this personal nozzle thing that has a hose with suction that you hold up against yourself to piss in but you have to be careful because you can have piss bubbles floating around which you try to suction up. For showers they use wetwipes and dry shampoo on their hair. He also did 2 or 3 spacewalks which he said was probably some of the most amazing experiences he has ever had. That sounds like apollo bags, i believe the space shuttle did have more of a toilet as does the iss. They keep the appollo bags for backup Shuttle had a toilet. Very interesting design, which I guess is where the “macerator” toilets got their inspiration from |
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Quoted: Don't they ever purge the air? Like put everyone in space suits one day, de-pressurize the station slowly until there is no air left, then re-pressurize with some tanks that they send up with another rocket. Problem solved, for a little while at least View Quote Air (oxygen) and water are the two most precious resources on board, they don’t vent either into space for olfactory effect. |
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Quoted: That wouldn't get the smell out of the surfaces and the toilet full of shit and cargo ships full of trash. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Don't they ever purge the air? Like put everyone in space suits one day, de-pressurize the station slowly until there is no air left, then re-pressurize with some tanks that they send up with another rocket. Problem solved, for a little while at least That wouldn't get the smell out of the surfaces and the toilet full of shit and cargo ships full of trash. Don't they have an airlock or some shit that they can dump that stuff out of? Funfact: The Apollo astronauts left their poo on the moon. |
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