NASA intends to start a “large-scale fire” in space, but unless something goes horrifically wrong it’s not like you will look up and see a fireball overhead.

Maybe there’s been too many movies showing how a fire in a spacecraft leads to disaster – action films which allegedly got it wrong – for NASA’s plan to start a fire in space not to sound alarming. Nevertheless, on March 22, NASA will launch an unmanned Cygnus spacecraft, via a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, to the ISS for a resupply mission; after undocking, NASA will kick off the first of three Spacecraft Fire Experiments (Saffire).

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