Fire safety in spacecraft

Fire and Materials

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 235-243

  Friedman, Robert ^a  

^a NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; BUOYANCY; COMBUSTION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; RESEARCH; SPACECRAFT;

MICROGRAVITY COMBUSTION RESEARCH; ORBITING SPACECRAFT;

FIRE PROTECTION;

EID: 0030235676     PISSN: 03080501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1018(199609)20:5<235::AID-FAM580>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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