{"id":693462,"date":"2021-06-17T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=693462"},"modified":"2021-06-17T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T07:00:00","slug":"no-fire-in-the-sky-preventing-an-astronauts-worst-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=693462","title":{"rendered":"No fire in the sky: preventing an astronaut\u2019s worst nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Burning_Plexiglass_in_Saffire-V_orbital_fire_experiment_card_full.gif\" alt=\"Burning Plexiglass in Saffire-V orbital fire experiment\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA risky and dangerous situation,\u201d recalls ESA astronaut Reinhold Ewald of the in-orbit fire he experienced aboard the Mir space station back in 1997. \u201cThe fire was so enormous and the smoke and vapour coming off this fire site was such that we couldn\u2019t see at arm\u2019s length \u2013 and I could not at that time have imagined that we go on with the mission.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Enabling_Support\/Space_Engineering_Technology\/No_fire_in_the_sky_preventing_an_astronaut_s_worst_nightmare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">No fire in the sky: preventing an astronaut\u2019s worst nightmare<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space Engineering &amp; Technology&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA risky and dangerous situation,\u201d recalls ESA astronaut Reinhold Ewald of the in-orbit fire he experienced aboard the Mir space station back in 1997. \u201cThe fire was so enormous and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":693463,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-693462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693462","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=693462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/693463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=693462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=693462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=693462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}