KONFRONTASI - The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is planning to create the biggest man-made fire in space in order to study how fire spreads in microgravity environments.
On Earth, where gravity is present, flames have a familiar structure, with heat rising and colder, denser air falling to the base. However, without gravity as the organizing principle, flames can be very unpredictable in space.
The “large-scale fire” will be ignited inside a cargo spaceship, after delivering food, supplies and hardware to the International Space Station (ISS).