NASA wants to set fire to the moon – no, really.If conducted, the experiment would be the first time humanity has set fire to another planet.The goal is to better understand how flames could behave during emergency situations on future crewed Artemis program missions to Mars and beyond, according to the space agency. Those missions will help to expand the reach of humanity and what we know about our solar system.“Since fire can be a catastrophic hazard for spaceflight and extreme human exploration, FM2 is a critical step in determining material flammability and safety for future missions,” NASA says on the “Flammability of Materials on the Moon,” or “FM2,” experiment’s webpage. One of the problems is that some materials that aren’t flammable on Earth could be flammable in space, NASA notes