{"id":6166,"date":"2014-01-22T17:42:07","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T17:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6166"},"modified":"2014-01-22T17:42:07","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T17:42:07","slug":"video-studying-fire-in-space-flex-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6166","title":{"rendered":"Video: Studying Fire In Space (FLEX-2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting discussion of combustion research in microgravity:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CE7Nz78rkfQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Caption:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Public Affairs Officer Lori Meggs at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama talks about a &#8220;cool&#8221; flames experiment in space. Meggs speaks to Vedha Nayagam, co-investigator for the FLEX-2 combustion experiment.<\/p>\n<p>You never want to hear about a fire in space, but for this experiment, that&#8217;s exactly what had to happen. The FLEX-2 experiment burned different types of fuel droplets and showed us how flames behave without gravity, so that we may learn better ways to extinguish flames in space &#8212; information that could lead to improved environmentally friendly fuels on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about FLEX-2&#8230;<a dir=\"ltr\" title=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/station\/research\/experiments\/480.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/station\/research\/experiments\/480.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/sta&#8230;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting discussion of combustion research in microgravity: Caption: Public Affairs Officer Lori Meggs at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama talks about a &#8220;cool&#8221; flames experiment in space. Meggs speaks to Vedha Nayagam, co-investigator for the FLEX-2 combustion experiment. You never want to hear about a fire in space, but for this experiment, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6166\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video: Studying Fire In Space (FLEX-2)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,9,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living-in-space","category-science-and-technology","category-space-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1Bs","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8646,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8646","url_meta":{"origin":6166,"position":0},"title":"Video: Oscillating flame in micro-g","author":"TopSpacer","date":"August 21, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"NASA posts this brief clip showing a flame experiment as part of a Space Station microgravity combustion science study: http:\/\/youtu.be\/qQQ1OHW1_F4 From the caption: From ignition to pulsating-jellyfish then warp-drive ending! 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