Wanted: low-odor underwear for space

“Not every shooting star is romantic,” says Gernot Grömer. The burning material can also be a capsule full of used astronauts’ underwear or other trash from the ISS space station, which is brought down in a controlled manner.

Grömer and his team from the Austrian Space Forum (ÖWF) and the Vienna Textile Lab (VTL) are researching a solution so that underwear can be worn longer in space before it is disposed of and still remain hygienic.