for the NASA podcast “The Body in Space” — originally recorded in November, but published Friday — Glover didn’t beat around the bush.
“When you first get to space station is when you notice the smell the strongest because you kind of get saturated and you get used to it after, but it was an interesting combination,” Glover told Cruise after he asked about the experience of living on board the orbiting space lab.“And again, it’s also local,” he went on. “When you go into the module that has the lifting, the strength training equipment, that’s also where the bathroom is. So, that’s the most odoriferous module.
“That one smells like a locker room,” he said, also likening the overall odor of the station to the smell at a hospital.“It is such a high-performing liquid rocket,” he said. “It’s smooth, but it really leapt off the pad. And we got to the 100-kilometer point, and we were all smiles. It was just so amazing.”“You’re moving around a suit that can weigh, with your body, as much as a thousand pounds, and you very rarely use your legs,” he told the actor.