{"id":469166,"date":"2018-05-01T12:14:18","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T16:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=9572985b452e4af2fc03b37b61adaf12"},"modified":"2018-05-01T12:14:18","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T16:14:18","slug":"study-shows-one-detector-doesnt-fit-all-for-smoke-in-spacecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=469166","title":{"rendered":"Study shows one detector doesn&#8217;t &#8216;fit all&#8217; for smoke in spacecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What had been a peaceful and productive mission for the six men aboard the Russian space station Mir, including U.S. astronaut Jerry Linenger, nearly became a tragic nightmare during the evening of Feb. 24, 1997. A lithium-perchlorate canister, designed to generate oxygen via a chemical reaction, suddenly burst into flames when activated. Although the fire was quickly subdued, a dense, life-threatening smoke\u2014different in form and movement from its gravity bound counterpart on Earth\u2014rapidly filled the station. Being confined in a limited area 360 kilometers (224 miles) above the nearest fire brigade made the situation even more precarious. &#8220;You can&#8217;t just open a window to ventilate the room,&#8221; commented cosmonaut Aleksandr Lazutkin in a NASA report about the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What had been a peaceful and productive mission for the six men aboard the Russian space station Mir, including U.S. astronaut Jerry Linenger, nearly became a tragic nightmare during the evening of Feb. 24, 1997. A lithium-perchlorate canister, designed to generate oxygen via a chemical reaction, suddenly burst into flames when activated. Although the fire was quickly subdued, a dense, life-threatening smoke&mdash;different in form and movement from its gravity bound counterpart on Earth&mdash;rapidly filled the station. Being confined in a limited area 360 kilometers (224 miles) above the nearest fire brigade made the situation even more precarious. &#8220;You can&#8217;t just open a window to ventilate the room,&#8221; commented cosmonaut Aleksandr Lazutkin in a NASA report about the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-469166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=469166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469167,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469166\/revisions\/469167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=469166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=469166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=469166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}