Photographic documentation of Payload Commander and Mission Specialist Bernard Harris conducting a Solid Surface Combustion Experiment (SSCE) on the Space Shuttle Discovery's middeck during STS-63. The SSCE was designed to supply information on flame spread over solid fuel surfaces in the reduced-gravity environment of space, as well as measure the rate of spreading, the solid-phase temperature, and the gas-phase temperature of flames spreading over rectangular fuel beds in low gravity.
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NASA
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Photographic documentation of Payload Commander and Mission Specialist Bernard Harris conducting a Solid Surface Combustion Experiment (SSCE) on the Space Shuttle Discovery's middeck during STS-63. The SSCE was designed to supply information on flame spread over solid fuel surfaces in the reduced-gravity environment of space, as well as measure the rate of spreading, the solid-phase temperature, and the gas-phase temperature of flames spreading over rectangular fuel beds in low gravity.