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Forum: Mercury - Gemini - Apollo
Topic: The smell of moondust (spent gunpowder)

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Message to Edit: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	Originally posted by YankeeClipper on 05-29-2017 10:30 AM Excerpt from [URL=https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a15/]ALSJ Apollo 15 Post-EVA-1 Activities[/URL] :<blockquote>[i]126:16:16 Irwin: There's a funny smell in here. 126:16:17 Scott: Yeah, I think that's a lunar dirt smell. (Pause) Never smelled lunar dirt before, but we got most of it right here with us. [Jones - "How would you describe the smell of lunar dirt?"] [Scott - "Like gunpowder."] [Jones - "That's what most people say."] [Scott - "I hadn't heard that before we went. I don't think."] [Jones - "Here, you don't actually describe it as gunpowder."] [Scott, from a 1996 letter - "I actually whispered it to Jim so that nobody would become alarmed."][/i]</blockquote>
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