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03-22-2016, 10:39 PM
Some like it hot: NASA plans to light a fire on a spaceship
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Fire and space don't mix.
Aside from the raw physics involved — you can't feed a flame in an oxygen-free vacuum — engineers do their best to keep fire far, far away from the exceedingly well-controlled interior environments of spacecraft.*
It is here, within cargo capsules and the Space Station itself, where a fire could start and quickly turn deadly.*
To reduce the risk of a potentially crippling or fatal fire, NASA plans to start a fire in space, on purpose.
In a few months, when an uncrewed, private cargo craft leaves the International Space Station, mission controllers will start a fire within a module housed in its belly, for an experiment that will hopefully make future space missions safer. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/22/nasa-spacecraft-fire-experiment/)
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Fire and space don't mix.
Aside from the raw physics involved — you can't feed a flame in an oxygen-free vacuum — engineers do their best to keep fire far, far away from the exceedingly well-controlled interior environments of spacecraft.*
It is here, within cargo capsules and the Space Station itself, where a fire could start and quickly turn deadly.*
To reduce the risk of a potentially crippling or fatal fire, NASA plans to start a fire in space, on purpose.
In a few months, when an uncrewed, private cargo craft leaves the International Space Station, mission controllers will start a fire within a module housed in its belly, for an experiment that will hopefully make future space missions safer. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/22/nasa-spacecraft-fire-experiment/)
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