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Asked by purplebug123 to Adam, Catherine, Karen, Leila, Nazim on 15 Mar 2012.
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Adam Stevens answered on 15 Mar 2012:
It would pong pretty bad for a little while, but all the air in spacesuits gets cycled out quite fast to make sure the carbon dioxide doesn’t build up and that the astronauts get enough oxygen. I don’t know if they put in specific fart filters, but I’m sure the air system would get rid of most of the smell!
In actual fact you’re more likely to fart when you get into a spacesuit – they operate at lower pressures that the inside of the space station, so any gas you have in your body will expand. Parp!
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Leila Battison answered on 15 Mar 2012:
It’s smell pretty bad when you took it off, but you wouldn’t have to breath it in because you have your own oxygen supply separate from the gross air from your bottom 😉
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purplebug123 commented on :
When you say ‘cycled’ do you mean recycled in to brethable air?
Adam commented on :
As far as I know the space suits have scrubbers to remove the CO2 rather than just venting it out to space (which would be bad as the venting would act like a jet pushing you along), but they have oxygen supplies to keep their air topped up. The air in the suit is actually pure oxygen (until you breathe out).