As Chief Compliance Officer, Trista Mayer manages the corporate compliance team which oversees regulatory compliance, policy and procedures, HMDA, state examinations and licensing for Fairway. When she joined Fairway in July 2013, Trista served as Vice President of Regulatory Compliance, and in July 2015, was named Chief Compliance Officer.
When you repressurize the airlock and get out of your suit, there is a distinct odor of ozone, a faint acrid smell, Jones told SPACE.com, adding that the smell is also similar to burnt gunpowder or the ozone smell of electrical equipment. It's not noticeable inside the suit. The suit smells like plastic inside.. The smell, he adds, only occurs on a shuttle or the space station after a spacewalk and is unmistakable to astronauts working with the spacesuits and equipment that was used in the vacuum of space. In those tight spaces, your nose gets right next to the fabric, Jones said.
Astronauts who have gone on spacewalks consistently speak of space's extraordinarily peculiar odor. They can't smell it while they're actually bobbing in it, because the interiors of their space suits just smell plastic-y. But upon stepping back into the space station and removing their helmets, they get a strong, distinctive whiff of the final frontier. The odor clings to their suit, helmet, gloves and tools.