A -- AWARD NOTICE FOR EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION OF MATERIAL FLAMMABILITY IN SPACE AWARD NOTICE The NASA Lewis Research Center intends to award a two-year contract to Keldysh Research Center in Moscow, Russia. Keldysh Research Center sets itself apart from the other possible sources in that they have developed a unique facility, Skorost, for performing tests of material samples for flammability in microgravity. This facility is located on the orbiting Space Station Mir. The effort is described below: Experimental Verification of Material Flammability in Space The NASA Lewis Research Center intends to measure the flammability and flame-spread rate of selected spacecraft construction materials in sheet form in microgravity, using a test apparatus accommodated on the Orbital Station Mir. Six or more different materials will be ignited at varying air-flow velocities corresponding to spacecraft ventilation rates. Preliminary tests in a duplicate apparatus on the ground will furnish reference values of flammability and flame-spread rate for comparison to the space measurements. The materials will be furnished by the NASA Johnson Space Center White Sands Test Facility, which will also conduct additional heat-release and standard flammability tests to characterize the materials. The technical and programmatic points of contact are Robert Friedman (216)433-5697 and Marton Forkosh (216) 433-8791. The Contractual points of contact are Christopher Signorino (216) 433-2767 and Ernest Mensurati (216) 433-2727. WEB: Click here for the latest information about this notice, http://procurement.nasa.gov/EPS/LeRC/date.html#keldysh. E-MAIL: Robert Friedman, Robert.Friedman@lerc.nasa.gov.

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