Setting Spaceships on Fire

What’s more exciting than a spaceship? A spaceship on Fiya! NASA plans on playing with fire. Caitlin Hofmeister explains in this episode of SciShow Space! Hosted by: Caitlin Hofmeister ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters -- we couldn t make SciShow without them! Shout out to Justin Ove, Accalia Elementia, Kathy & Tim Philip, Kevin Bealer, Justin Lentz, Fatima Iqbal, Linnea Boyev, Tomasz Jonarski, Chris Peters, Philippe von Bergen, Will and Sonja Marple, and Mark Terrio-Cameron. ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: http://www.popsci.com/military-aviation-space/article/2003-01/iss-learns-mirs-flame http://www.sciencelet.com/2013/08/why-do-flames-burn-upwards.html http://www.space.com/13766-international-space-station-flex-fire-research.html http://quest.nasa.gov/space/teachers/microgravity/MGprim1.html http://www.airspacemag.com/daily-planet/nasa-plans-light-fire-inside-spacecraft-then-watch-what-happens-180958165/?no-ist http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/in-space-flames-behave-in-ways-nobody-thought-possible-132637810/?no-ist https://www.nasa.gov/feature/fire-in-the-hole-studying-how-flames-grow-in-space http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/1918.html http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20150022123.pdf http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nasa-to-test-lighting-fire-in-space/ http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/1761.html Images: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire#/media/File:Space_Fire.jpg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JkQ12JluJ0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir#/media/File:Mir_after_Fire.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir#/media/File:Mir_diagram.svg