Apollo astronauts describe the fresh lunar dirt smell as "spent gunpowder". Apollo 17's Harrison "Jack" Schmitt, who was one of the 12 astronauts to land on the moon, said that lunar powdery dirt smell was not "metallic or acrid", CBS News reported. According to Schmitt, he took 7 minutes to come up with the descriptive term of fired gunpowder smell, which was "probably much more implanted" in their memories than other comparable odors. Larry ...
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