The Best Part of Waking Up is Coffee in Your Mouth

No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils. ~Henry Ward Beecher

Because I agree wholeheartedly with the above quote, after the post about drinking coffee in space, I got to thinking about olfaction and wondered about smell in space. Can astronauts enjoy the smell and taste of a good cup of coffee, or any foods and beverages?

Apparently not. Not because the odor molecules behave differently but because their sinuses fill with fluid in the lack of gravity. NASA calls it "odor boredom."

It doesn't look all that tasty anyway - maybe it's better the way it is.

Something else I learned: Space Smells Funny