George Aldrich, works in NASA for over 40 years as a "professional sniffer".
His job is to smell every object that gets into the spaceships and identify the source of it.
George can distinguish between over 10,000 odors, a fact that helping prevent unhealthy or just stinky objects getting into no-windows environment.
His job is so important that if George has a cold, the launch is postponed until his back.
Source:
https://www.nasa.gov/centers/wstf/news/2011/GA_Mad_Scientist.html
Comments