Can dust collect on items in space like they do on Earth? Would an old abandoned section of a space station have soot covered walls?

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Can dust collect on items in space like they do on Earth? Would an old abandoned section of a space station have soot covered walls?

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Answer 1

That was actually a plot point in the movie Sunshine. They find an abandoned spaceship and there is dust covering everything. Someone asked “how can there be dust?” and someone else answered (something like) “80% of dust is human skin.”