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Some like it hot: NASA plans to light a fire on a spaceship
Some like it hot: NASA plans to light a fire on a spaceship
http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyM...0567d22695.jpghttp://rack.1.mshcdn.com/assets/feed...50839a8e00.jpghttp://rack.1.mshcdn.com/assets/feed...32c6f24ba1.jpg 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... More about Spaceflight, Science, International Space Station, Nasa, and Spacehttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/R8di7Qspru0 |
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