Fire Burns Differently in Space. 🔥🚀✨

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Without the ability to spray water, how do you put out a fire in space? And for that matter, without gravity, what does a burning fire look like?

Weightless Flames: How Fires Burn in Space

“How do you put out a fire on a space station? If you were to ask an Earthbound firefighter how to extinguish a fire, he might tell you to aim for the base of the flame. But what if there is no base? What if the flame is a large, pulsing ball of intense fire?”

In Space, Flames Behave in Ways Nobody Thought Possible

“Recent tests aboard the International Space Station have shown that fire in space can be less predictable and potentially more lethal than it is on Earth. ‘There have been experiments,’ says NASA aerospace engineer Dan Dietrich, ‘where we observed fires that we didn’t think could exist, but did.’”