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ASTRONAUT WARNS TOM CRUISE ABOUT APPALLING SMELL ON SPACE STATION
futurism.com ^ | VICTOR TANGERMANN

Posted on 02/01/2022 6:22:19 PM PST by BenLurkin

Glover, who was part of the first operational crew mission to the ISS on board SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft in November 2020, gave Cruise several pointers as to what to expect. Cruise partnered with SpaceX in 2020 to film what could soon become one of the first action movies filmed in space.

During an interview for the NASA podcast “The Body in Space” — originally recorded in November, but published Friday — Glover didn’t beat around the bush.

“When you first get to space station is when you notice the smell the strongest because you kind of get saturated and you get used to it after, but it was an interesting combination...

“When you go into the module that has the lifting, the strength training equipment, that’s also where the bathroom is. So, that’s the most odoriferous module.”

“That one smells like a locker room,” he said, also likening the overall odor of the station to the smell at a hospital.

Glover also recalled what it was like riding a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

“It is such a high-performing liquid rocket,” he said. “It’s smooth, but it really leapt off the pad. And we got to the 100-kilometer point, and we were all smiles. It was just so amazing.”

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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: falcon9; spacex; spacexfalcon9; tomcruise
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To: technically right

“I wonder if their space boots stick to the floor.”

That’s not artificial gravity.


21 posted on 02/01/2022 7:16:49 PM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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To: technically right

Try working a mint field. It takes two days of vomits but after that you lose all sense of smell.


22 posted on 02/01/2022 7:20:09 PM PST by Bookshelf
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To: algore
"Does this guy know how to party or what?" Wayne's World
23 posted on 02/01/2022 7:20:45 PM PST by sjm_888
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To: EEGator

febreze in space would be a hand jet pack on the station

compressed propellant


24 posted on 02/01/2022 7:24:15 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: BenLurkin

Can’t they just open up some windows?


25 posted on 02/01/2022 7:28:02 PM PST by Glad2bnuts ((“If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer,)
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To: Afterguard

I like the smell of a paper mill. I used to do a little work at Boise Cascade mill in Camas, Washington- didn’t mind it a all


26 posted on 02/01/2022 7:34:01 PM PST by atc23 (The Matriarchal Society we embrace has led to masks and mandates and the cult of "safety")
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To: Glad2bnuts

Now we know why the Zeta Rectumlians never get out of their ships. I’ll bet the Earth stinks of liberals


27 posted on 02/01/2022 7:36:23 PM PST by atc23 (The Matriarchal Society we embrace has led to masks and mandates and the cult of "safety")
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To: BenLurkin
They need to hang these around the space station to help with the space funk.
28 posted on 02/01/2022 7:36:59 PM PST by Cecily
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To: Williams

“Keeps saying he warned Tom Cruise. Is Cruise going into space?”

Cruise partnered with SpaceX in 2020 to film what could soon become one of the first action movies filmed in space.

First paragraph, second sentence.


29 posted on 02/01/2022 7:44:29 PM PST by Neverlift (When someone says "you just can't make this stuff up" odds are good, somebody did.)
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To: Glad2bnuts
Can’t they just open up some windows?

That would air out the space station.... literaly: air out.

30 posted on 02/01/2022 7:53:18 PM PST by KarlInOhio (I stand behind Alec Baldwin. It is far too dangerous to stand in front of him.)
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To: Celtic Conservative

**except for maybe a dead skunk.**

Every time I see buzzards feasting on a fresh roadkill skunk or a rotting armadillo I have to marvel at their amazing tolerance. After all, they have a great sense of smell, finding dead critters in heavy foliage by the scent.


31 posted on 02/01/2022 7:59:28 PM PST by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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To: atc23

I’ll bet the Zeta Rectumulans don’t smell too good themselves.


32 posted on 02/01/2022 8:08:48 PM PST by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: Neverlift

Maybe he can do some air freshener commercials while he’s up there.


33 posted on 02/01/2022 8:10:06 PM PST by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: BenLurkin

Worst smell I’ve ever encountered was a chicken manure dehydrating plant. It is the only smell that ever made me vomit.

A sugar mill is runner up but its stink only makes you laugh.


34 posted on 02/01/2022 8:14:17 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: algore

I use a cedar oil spray. Kills the odor and the aroma is fantastic.


35 posted on 02/01/2022 8:15:03 PM PST by Ken H (Trump won.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Sure takes the glamour out of space travel, doesn’t it?


36 posted on 02/01/2022 8:17:07 PM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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To: Celtic Conservative

“except for maybe a dead skunk.”

GF’s son shot a skunk next to their outdoor AC unit one summer morning before work and left it laying there all day.

When she got home the smell inside was so bad she cried. Took until late the next day before the house was bearable.


37 posted on 02/01/2022 8:19:10 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: BenLurkin

They have not made any progress on air quality ? It stinks ?


38 posted on 02/01/2022 8:21:53 PM PST by The Sentient Sheep
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To: BenLurkin

Time to send up some Potpourri, I mean come on man .....


39 posted on 02/01/2022 8:25:03 PM PST by The Sentient Sheep
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To: noiseman

Yulia Peresild beat him to it. She took part in filming some scenes for a movie called The Challenge. Her and her producer, Klim Shipenko, did it a couple of months ago. Can’t wait to see it.


40 posted on 02/01/2022 8:29:20 PM PST by NCC-1701 ((You have your fear, which might become reality; and you have Godzilla, which IS reality.))
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