{"id":235588,"date":"2026-04-20T22:25:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T03:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/nasa-plans-to-test-fire-on-the-moon-ahead-of-future-missions"},"modified":"2026-04-20T22:25:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T03:25:35","slug":"nasa-plans-to-test-fire-on-the-moon-ahead-of-future-missions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/nasa-plans-to-test-fire-on-the-moon-ahead-of-future-missions","title":{"rendered":"NASA Plans to Test Fire on The Moon Ahead of Future Missions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-plans-to-test-fire-on-the-moon-ahead-of-future-missions.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s one particular challenge facing the crewed missions of the near future that scares mission planners more than almost any other: fire.<\/p>\n<p>A new paper from researchers at NASA\u2019s Glenn Research Center and Johnson Space Center and Case Western Reserve University <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hou.usra.edu\/meetings\/lpsc2026\/pdf\/1799.pdf\">details a planned mission<\/a> to test the flammability of materials on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/moon\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">the Moon<\/a>\u2019s surface \u2013 where they expect flame to act much differently than it does here on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>On Earth, gravity causes hot gases to rise, drawing fresh, cool oxygen to the base of the flame. In some cases where the material is marginally flammable, this can result in a phenomenon called \u201cblowoff\u201d, which actually extinguishes the fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s one particular challenge facing the crewed missions of the near future that scares mission planners more than almost any other: fire. A new paper from researchers at NASA\u2019s 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\u2019s surface [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}