They paid people in the '60s to not practice personal hygeine? Cheap labor.

Things were much funkier back then. In all senses.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je5aTUS8DhU

Those astronauts were just going to be their funky selves. Again.

True that. Funk on, astro brotha. The pinnacle of funk was the mid 70's though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBkVV9xxCHE

Being a space nerd, I kept thinking, "But Shannon Lucid stayed on the ISS for six months, no problem."

My sweat smells good, I should have been a space traveler.

Can they not use baby wipes?

They could, but that would add to payload and to the amount of waste generated. In a low gravity environment such as a spaceship scents diffuse instantly, and you're using recycled air.

I had a professor who quoted an astronaut he met as saying, "Living on the space station is like living in an outhouse for six months."

They don't tell you that part when your a kid.

Hehe that's great - good pick.

I remember a similar situation in Iraq. After spending weeks as a unit out in the desert not bathing, none of us could smell each other. I'm sure we all smelled equally rank. When we got back to where there were shower facilities and other people who had been bathing regularly it was confirmed that we smelled horrible to them but our own noses had been deadened to the smell. Seems like the astronauts would adapt in a similar way if they were together.

They actually did this, on the Gemini 7 mission. Frank Borman and James Lovell spent *14* days in orbit in a Gemini capsule. Astronautix.com mentions "A just-used urine collection bag split open early in the mission. The crew never managed to collect all the floating globules. When asked to describe the record flight later, Lovell described it as '...two weeks in the Men's Room'"

Botox to the rescue!

http://www.botoxseveresweating.com/

Fun topic for NASA's 52nd birthday. People adapt.