"NASA's Long-Running Spacecraft Fire Experiment Ends as Flame Burns Out"
NASA concludes its eight-year Spacecraft Fire Safety Experiment (Saffire) with the final mission, Saffire-VI, which involved igniting materials inside an uninhabited Cygnus spacecraft to study fire behavior in space. The experiments provided valuable insights into how fires grow and spread in space, informing future spacecraft designs for missions to the Moon and Mars. The data collected will help NASA enhance mission safety and design safer spacecraft for its ambitious future missions.