Fire in space

Having no gravity force in the space makes the fire behave in a very strange way, which is dangerous and unpredictable..
In order to study better these behaviors and the way to prevent or put out a fire in the international space station (ISS), the NASA celebrates today the two years in which it has done about 200 experiments, all of them included in the FLEX (flames extinction) experiments program.
The American agency assures that knowing how to put out a fire in the space is of vital importance, especially if you have to live in small spaces, like the spacemen who live at the ISS.
“We hope to obtain grater knowledge about burning processes, improve the security against fire in our spaceships, and to get ideas for a more efficient utilization of liquid fuels in earth”, said Forman Williams, head researcher in the FLEX project.