Since March 2009, the space agency's Flame Extinguishment Experiment, or FLEX, has conducted more than 200 tests to better understand how fire behaves in microgravity, which is still not well understood. The research could lead to improved fire suppression systems aboard future spaceships, and it could also have practical benefits here on Earth, scientists said.
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http://www.space.com/13766-international-space-station-flex-fire-research.html
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Astronaut Reid Weisman captured a floating sphere of fire observed during the Flex-2 experiment on space station on July 18, 2014.
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Fluid dynamics in microgravity: I'm suddenly wondering how easy it would be to locally exhaust oxygen just by breathing.
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