Engineers at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland and Orbital ATK in Dulles, Virginia, are preparing to ignite the third remote Spacecraft Fire Experiment, or SAFFIRE III, inside an Orbital ATK ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The biggest space-fire experiment ever conducted is now in the books. NASA successfully ignited a ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The latest set of space-fire experiments has blazed up aboard the private Cygnus cargo spacecraft ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - An unmanned cargo ship pulled away from the International Space Station on Tuesday to stage the first of three planned NASA experiments on how big fires grow in space, ...

Fire and space don't mix. Aside from the raw physics involved -- you can't feed a flame in an oxygen-free vacuum -- engineers do their best to keep fire far, far away from the exceedingly ...

After eight years of experimenting with flames in space, NASA lit a fire inside a cargo spacecraft for the last time and sent its Saffire experiment toward a burning reentry into Earth’s atmosphere.

As part of its efforts to ensure the safety of spacefarers, NASA set a 16x37-inch block of cotton-fiberglass material on fire aboard a spacecraft that's making its way back home. Since the largest ...

Last month, NASA lit a fire in space — for science. The space agency took an empty Cygnus spacecraft that had just completed a resupply mission to the International Space Station and intentionally ...

The Orbital ATK Cygnus spacecraft (L) departs the International Space Station after its release from the Canadarm2 in this still image from NASA TV taken June 14, 2016. NASA TV/Handout via Reuters By ...