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NASA's Quest for Fire: 1,500 Flames Ignited on the ISS in Five Years to Study How It Behaves in Microgravity

Medicine & Technology Apr 20, 2022

Understanding how fire behaves in microgravity is important for the safety of future astronauts and for learning how to control it on Earth. Read on to learn what fire experiments were conducted in the past five years on the ISS.

Wildfire Containment: Here’s Why It Sometimes Takes Long to Put the Flames Out

Aug 22, 2021

About 199 wildfires are currently occurring in the US West and the biggest challenge firefighters are facing today is wildfire containment. Some of the occurrences of such devastation are caused by human sources.

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NASA's Quest for Fire: 1,500 Flames Ignited on the ISS in Five Years to Study How It Behaves in Microgravity

Wildfire Containment: Here’s Why It Sometimes Takes Long to Put the Flames Out

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