{"id":280,"date":"2006-02-02T05:51:52","date_gmt":"2006-02-02T13:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=280"},"modified":"2006-02-01T19:54:08","modified_gmt":"2006-02-02T03:54:08","slug":"moondust-and-gunpowder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2006\/02\/02\/moondust-and-gunpowder\/","title":{"rendered":"Moondust and Gunpowder?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is from the third installment of Science@NASA&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/headlines\/y2006\/17jan_jack.htm\">Apollo Chronicles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/headlines\/y2006\/30jan_smellofmoondust.htm\">NASA &#8211; Apollo Chronicles: The Smell of Moondust<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-images\/0602\/cernan.jpg\" class=\"right\" \/>January 30, 2006: Moondust. &#8220;I wish I could send you some,&#8221; says Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan. Just a thimbleful scooped fresh off the lunar surface. &#8220;It&#8217;s amazing stuff.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Feel it\u00e2\u20ac\u201dit&#8217;s soft like snow, yet strangely abrasive.<\/p>\n<p>Taste it\u00e2\u20ac\u201d&#8221;not half bad,&#8221; according to Apollo 16 astronaut John Young.<\/p>\n<p>Sniff it\u00e2\u20ac\u201d&#8221;it smells like spent gunpowder,&#8221; says Cernan.<\/p>\n<p>How do you sniff moondust?<\/p>\n<p><em>Right: At the end of a long day on the moon, Apollo 17 astronaut Gene cernan rests inside the lunar module Challenger. Note the smudges of dust on his longjohns and forehead. Photo credit: Jack Schmitt.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/headlines\/y2006\/30jan_smellofmoondust.htm\">more<\/a>]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is from the third installment of Science@NASA&#8217;s Apollo Chronicles. NASA &#8211; Apollo Chronicles: The Smell of Moondust January 30, 2006: Moondust. &#8220;I wish I could&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aerospace","category-rocket-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}