When it comes to space travel, there’s one thing that people fear beyond all others: fire. Fires in space are incredibly dangerous, as the lack of oxygen in space means that spacecraft must carry oxygen with them in a pressurized environment. If a fire starts in such an environment, it becomes deadly extremely quickly. But it’s hard to know how to prevent and protect against fires in space because fire behaves differently in space than it does on Earth. That
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