The Smell of Moondust

NASA has made the Apollo Chronicles available on its Web site. Installment three goes into detail about the sensory delights of moondust.

"I wish I could send you some," says Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan. Just a thimbleful scooped fresh off the lunar surface. "It's amazing stuff."

Feel it—it's soft like snow, yet strangely abrasive.

Taste it—"not half bad," according to Apollo 16 astronaut John Young.

Sniff it—"it smells like spent gunpowder," says Cernan.

How do you sniff moondust?

Gene Cernan looks a lot like Keven Federline. Just as clean, too.