In space, no-one can smell you.......

[MartG]

Interesting comment

"The things you uncover about long-duration space missions when you start digging deeper.

Here's a little tidbit I discovered in preparing the SL-4 Mission Reports. The quoted astronaut shall remain anonymous for now:

"Suit Circuit: I think there should be an odor removal system in the suit circuit. I think the idea of having three men operating in the same suit circuit, suffering from each other's gas and everything else, is ridiculous. Future design of suit circuits should be modified in some way so that there is a decent way to scrub them because there's nothing worse than having a person pass gas and causing others to suffer through it. It definitely effects your ability to perform."

( the Suit Circuit is the part of the environmental control system which provides breathing oxygen to the spacesuits )

[MartG]

Yup - peeing into a tube while defacating into a plastic bag stuck to your bum can't have been easy or pleasant, though after some of the indignities the early astronauts went through during medical screening it may not have been so bad by comparison.