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Thursday, February 02, 2006

Space Part Fourteen


Moondust. "I wish I could send you some," says Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan. Just a thimbleful scooped fresh off the lunar surface. "It's amazing stuff."

Feel it—it's soft like snow, yet strangely abrasive.

Taste it—"not half bad," according to Apollo 16 astronaut John Young.

Sniff it—"it smells like spent gunpowder," says Cernan.

How do you sniff moondust?


No green cheese here...

The Smell of Moondust

via boingboing

1 Comments:

At 10:59 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Caaaam on V

I've been waitin' for this page to change for yonks

Awaiting 'Space 1999' .. LOL!

DS

 

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