{"id":11949,"date":"2012-06-27T14:27:09","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T21:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=11949"},"modified":"2012-06-27T15:32:28","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T22:32:28","slug":"apollo-17-astronaut-jack-schmitt-was-the-first-person-to-get-extraterrestrial-hay-fever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2012\/06\/apollo-17-astronaut-jack-schmitt-was-the-first-person-to-get-extraterrestrial-hay-fever\/","title":{"rendered":"Apollo 17 Astronaut Jack Schmitt was the First Person to Get Extraterrestrial Hay Fever"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/moon-facts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11950\" title=\"moon facts\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/moon-facts.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/moon-facts.jpg 559w, https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/moon-facts-340x365.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jack Schmitt, an Apollo 17 astronaut and geologist, has the distinction of being the first human to have extraterrestrial hay fever.\u00a0 After returning to the lunar module and taking his helmet off, he had an instant reaction to the Moon dust with his nose stuffing up quickly.\u00a0 This lasted a couple hours before going away.\u00a0 However, every time he came back inside the lunar module after tracking in fresh Moon dust, he had the same reaction, though lessened each time as his body developed an immunity to whatever vapors the Moon dust was giving off.\u00a0\u00a0 Also according to Schmitt, he wasn&#8217;t the only one to experience this, but pilots don&#8217;t like to admit to any adverse symptoms or they think they&#8217;ll be grounded.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re curious, several astronauts say that fresh moon dust smells like spent gunpowder.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"What moon dust smells like\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/moon-dust-smells-like-spent-gunpowder\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reference<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Schmitt, an Apollo 17 astronaut and geologist, has the distinction of being the first human to have extraterrestrial hay fever.\u00a0 After returning to the lunar module and taking his helmet off, he had an instant reaction to the Moon dust with his nose stuffing up quickly.\u00a0 This lasted a couple hours before going away.\u00a0 However, every time he came [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[2806,2805,2804],"class_list":["post-11949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-apollo-facts","tag-jack-schmitt","tag-moon-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11951,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11949\/revisions\/11951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}