{"id":3925562,"date":"2026-04-18T10:05:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T15:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/the-moon-might-be-more-prone-to-fires\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T10:05:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T15:05:15","slug":"the-moon-might-be-more-prone-to-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/the-moon-might-be-more-prone-to-fires\/","title":{"rendered":"The moon might be more prone to fires"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Engineers love a good practical challenge, especially when it comes to spaceflight. But there&#8217;s one particular challenge facing the crewed missions of the near future that scares mission planners above almost all others\u2014fire. For decades, we&#8217;ve relied on a NASA test known as NASA-STD-6001B to screen material flammability for flight. But space is much more complicated than an Earth-bound test provides for. A new paper from researchers at NASA&#8217;s Glenn Research Center and Johnson Space Center and Case Western Reserve University details a planned mission to test the flammability of materials on the moon&#8217;s surface\u2014where they expect flame to act much differently than it does here on Earth.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-04-moon-prone.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engineers love a good practical challenge, especially when it comes to spaceflight. But there&#8217;s one particular challenge facing the crewed missions of the near future that scares mission planners above almost all others\u2014fire. For decades, we&#8217;ve relied on a NASA test known as NASA-STD-6001B to screen material flammability for flight. But space is much more [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3925562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3925562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3925562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3925562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3925562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}