Spacecraft Fire Experiment I

I had to google around to find this out, but looks like this will be performed in the Cygnus craft that results from Orbital ATK's flight Cygnus CRS OA-6 which is expected to launch on March 22 (PDT, it's the 23rd UTC).

More discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11296795

There is a Galactica '78 episode about a massive fire in space :) . It isn't scientifically accurate, though.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0519742/

I would have thought that this could be modelled accurately in computer simulations and tested in far smaller scale.

Tdlr:

No One has ever tested how fires bigger than matches behave in space.

Since it would be stupid to make a big fire in the space station, the inside of a cargo spaceship will be rigged with a dozen materials to light on fire before the cargo ship burns up entering the atmosphere.