NASA Is Experimenting With Fire in Space, and it Looks Awesome

NASA has been conducting space fire experiments to better understand fire safety in space and on spacecrafts, and it sure does look weird.

While NASA has done similar studies aboard the International Space Station before, potential risks meant these experiments were limited in size and scope. The new round of Spacecraft Fire Safety experiments, called "Saffire," began earlier this year, with NASA remotely igniting nine different material swatches in a cargo ship orbiting Earth:

 

The second experiment (in the videos above), Saffire-II, took place last week, and while NASA don't yet have enough data to produce the experiment's results, they have released two videos of two samples — Nomex (Sample 7) and Plexiglass (Sample 9) — being burned. Nomex is often used for cargo storage bags and plexiglass is used for spacecraft windows.

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