Fire acts differently in space than on Earth. Sandra Olson, an aerospace engineer at NASA’s Glenn Research Center, demonstrates just how differently in her art. This artwork is comprised of multiple ...

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The panel’s review of technology capabilities supported by the ISS was restricted to aspects of the ISS research plan that pertain to the physical sciences. This discussion is based primarily on ...

NASA will conduct the first-ever controlled fire experiment on the Moon to examine how combustion behaves in reduced gravity. The Flammability Of Materials On The Moon (FM2) test will ignite four fuel ...

Thinking outside the box propels many NASA innovations for missions exploring space and improving life on Earth. But thinking – or working – inside the box makes scientific discoveries possible aboard ...

Microgravity as a research area encompasses the systematic investigation of physical, chemical, and biological processes under conditions of greatly reduced effective gravitational acceleration, such ...