# Zero gravity fire

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**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [August 2, 2012, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zero-gravity-fire/630166 "2012-08-02T12:53:27Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zero-gravity-fire/630166/1 "2012-08-02T12:53:27Z")

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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](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuttle%E2%80%93Mir_Program#Fire_and_collision_.281997.29).