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Old 08-02-2012, 07:53 AM
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Zero gravity fire
During the Shuttle-Mir missions there was a fire aboard the Mir space station when an oxygen generator unit overheated. Astronauts Jerry Linenger, Vasili Tsibliyev and Aleksandr Lazutkin learned first-hand how a fire behaves in zero gravity.
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