#ICYMI The #Cygnus spacecraft left the @Space_Station today. Within 24 hours, Cygnus will begin its secondary mission--hosting the Spacecraft Fire Safety Experiment – IV (Saffire-IV), which provides an environment to safely study fire in microgravity. https://t.co/AjTYO9eqWX pic.twitter.com/2Wvg0YBG6W
— NASAexplores (@NASAexplores) May 11, 2020
In order to further understand how fire behaves on microgravity, and how materials spread the flames in space, NASA will be setting a spacecraft on fire. The event is part of the institution’s Spacecraft Fire Safety Experiment (Saffire) project, and the data that will be gathered throughout this experiment will be used to keep future astronauts safe.
Thankfully, nobody will be harmed throughout this experiment, as the spacecraft has no astronauts inside.
More details about this over at Futurism.
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