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Subject: Re: Re: Would a candle burn ...
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> > > ... in space?
> 
> 	You'd have to ask the Russians. As long as the Americans use a pure
> Oxygen atmosphere (they did thru Skylab, and I believe they still do), this
> is one experiment that is not going to be done on the shuttle.
> 

Oh I don't know about that.  Surely NASA could design an experiment to
enclose a candle and a whiff of "normal" atmosphere for no more than
10 or 20 million $.  Look what they did with Coke and Pepsi :-).