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Pastimes : Shuttle Columbia STS-107 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rande Is who wrote (139)	2/2/2003 10:33:08 PM
From: James F. Hopkins	Respond to of 627

Rande; The smell of the dieing Shuttle; settled down on south Texas late last night. 11pm I was hesitant to mention this but I checked around for plant chemical releases all around this area and found none. ( Brazosport 50 mi south of Houston) The odor was very Faint but distinctive, like the lighty sweet smell of a very used and old Fabric softener, ( the kind you put in you cloths dryer. ) I drove around some and it was all over the county, I asked several people if they could smell it and they said yes, but seemed unconcerned, (It was faint) and I didn't suggest to them it was the from the Shuttle burning up. However I'm most sure it was. It's not with us today. So as far as I'm concered that's what a burning Shuttel smells like , 15hrs later, & 200,000ft lower. "Lightly sweet like an old old used up fabric softener." Jim ps I have a fairly good nose for chemicals as I was a chemical tank cleaner and tankerman for about 20 yrs ( off and on )Also we don't have any chemicals produced around here that I know of that would smell that way; acetylene would be close, but it's sweeter.