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According to the website Kickstarter, NASA had created a formula decades ago that was used as a stimulus for astronauts as they prepped for their space missions. Now, NASA has decided to share it with the rest of the world.
According to CNN, NASA first approached chemist and founder of Omega Ingredients, Steve Pearce, to work on the fragrance back in 2008. After four long years, the brand is now looking for help in order to mass-produce the fragrance to make it accessible to the public.
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If you're wondering, what the fragrance is like or what notes it will be close to, in a 2002 interview with CNN, American astronaut Peggy Whitson described the smell of space as âkind of like a smell from a gun, right after you fire the shot. I think it kind of has almost a bitter kind of smell in addition to being smoky and burned," added Whitson.
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Eau de Space product manager Matt Richmond describes the smell of the fragrance as "Astronauts describe the smell as a mix of gunpowder, seared steak, raspberries, and rum."
But more than just exposure to people, another motive of developing this fragrance on a larger scale is for the organisation to garner interest in STEM learning for K-12 students, as a way to provide access to audio-visual stimulus in educating the students. This as Richmond puts it, will add to the "experiential education" for the students and will hopefully spark the interest in building the interest further.
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Another product that the company is going to focus on is replicating the smell of the moon in a fragrance called âSmell of the Moon.â
It's set to be priced at $15 which comes down to approximately Rs. 1,100, and will start delivering by October 2020.
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