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Meet the Nasalnaut

Posted by michael on from the nose-knows dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "George Aldrich works at NASA and is not an astronaut. Instead, he's a 'master sniffer.' He tests everything that goes up in space on the shuttle or on the ISS for smelliness, from tennis shoes to teddy bears, and from refrigerators to socks or mascara. Why? Because things smell different in spacecrafts which experience a full day/night cycle every 90 minutes. And bad odors into a spacecraft can even lead to the abortion of a mission, like it happened to a Russian mission back in 1976. Wired Magazine tells us more about NASA's nasalnaut, a man whose colleagues call "Most Smella Fella" and has performed 771 flawless smelling missions. This overview contains more details and selected excerpts from a previous interview with Aldrich given to New Scientist. It also includes a picture showing how the NASA's nasalnaut smells things."

18 of 229 comments (clear)

  1. Frist porst by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah!

  2. ahhh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It smells like burning pine needles, it must be sco...

  3. smelly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    geeks are smelly

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    check this site out. How far can YOU hit the penguin?

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  7. This thread is all I have to say about NASA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  8. Fun game, should get mentioned in a better forum.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Not sure why this popped up in here, but it is a fun game.. And I beat you with 586.1 :)

  9. Re:Fun game, should get mentioned in a better foru by Thud457 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    You goddamned Micro$oft schills are now stooping so low as to promote cruelty to animals as a fun pastime?!!! FOR SHAME!!!!

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    the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

  10. I Smell A Stench Emitting From: +1, Insightful by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    President-Vice Cheney's Spiderhole

    Very patriotically yours,
    Kilgore Trout

  11. My New Fantasy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  12. master sniffer? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    master sniffer?

    In former Soviet Russia, master sniffs you.

  13. Re-Select Me For "President": +1, Thoughtful by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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    Very truly yours,
    George W. Bush

  14. Re:Fun game, should get mentioned in a better foru by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    593.5

    Choke on that, slapnuts.

  15. THIS IS SO INCREDIBLY NOT FUNNY MOD PARENT DOWN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Seriously... ugh.

  16. Re:What a Job to have.... by frodo+from+middle+ea · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    My OP was an allusion to a quote from the movie clerks.

    Obviously you haven't seen the movie , so you didn't catch the reference. btw I highly recommend you watch it.

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    for the last time people, I am "frodo from middle eaRTH", not "middle eaST".
  17. Re:Fun game, should get mentioned in a better foru by Alorelith · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    593 148.6 I'm gonna see if I can top these. H

  18. Re:what about by gl4ss · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ..cant.. resist.. saying.... BUTTPLUG!

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    world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.