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June 20, 2016

NASA Glenn Ignites Largest Fire Experiment in Space
Cleveland OH (SPX) Jun 19, 2016
Engineers at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio and Orbital ATK in Dulles, Virginia successfully conducted the first remote Spacecraft Fire Experiment, or Saffire I, carried inside an Orbital ATK Cygnus cargo vehicle that departed the International Space Station on Tuesday, June 14. The experiment's purpose is to learn how a fire might behave in a spacecraft after leaving Earth's atmosphere. Understanding how fire spreads in a microgravity environment is critical to the safety of astr ... read more

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