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Tdlr: No One has ever tested how fires bigger than matches behave in space. Since it would be stupid to make a big fire in the space station, the inside of a
by danielvf 11y ago
Tdlr:
No One has ever tested how fires bigger than matches behave in space.
Since it would be stupid to make a big fire in the space station, the inside of a cargo spaceship will be rigged with a dozen materials to light on fire before the cargo ship burns up entering the atmosphere.
- subinsebastien 11y agoActually, a rectangular card of significant size inside the experiment module will only be set on fire, not the entire cargo. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/Saffire2.png http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experimen...
- mirimir 11y agoWell: http://io9.gizmodo.com/5978305/fighting-a-fire-aboard-the-mir-space-station http://io9.gizmodo.com/5978305/fighting-a-fire-aboard-the-mi...