Re: Cabin freshness during flight ?

On 22 Sep 2006 13:41:01 -0700, "The Rocket Scientist"
<bill.the.rocket.scientist@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Several of the Gemini and Apollo astronauts remarked upon the "aroma"
of their spacecraft after prolonged missions. At least the shuttle has
provisions to take an occasional bath. I think Lovell said something
to the effect that you learn to become a mouth breather.

....IIRC, there was some talk at one point during the Apollo
Applications discussions about some of the "extreme long-term"
I-mission flights - the ones lasting more than 3 weeks, such as the
Lunar HYCON mapper mission - about allowing a controlled explosive
decompression to blow out the stale, sweaty air halfway through the
mission. The idea was to clear things up a bit and not totally
overload any of the filtration systems. How much of this was Astronaut
banter is debatable, natch :-)

OM
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