Earlier tests on small versions of the concept have been successful. According to a report from SFGate, Longshot has launched ...

It is still considered to be the only gun ever fired in space, and it was fired a total of three times over the course of the space station’s brief life. Spacecraft have been used in military ...

This one, though, takes the cake. It’s a gun designed to send very small payloads into space on a suborbital trajectory. The gun itself is an 8-inch bore, 45-foot long monster of an artillery piece.

Today, let’s take a look at the history of why Russian astronauts carried a gun in space and what was its use. Numerous issues and difficulties had to be resolved in the early days of human ...

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IT sounds like the plot of some sci-fi or action movie; astronauts heading into space with a special gun packed away among all their gear. Indeed, it has been claimed that Russian astronauts ...