Aerospace is currently a very hot topic. Due to the heating of aerospace, people are also very concerned about all aspects of astronauts' work and life. Today, let’s talk about an interesting topic, whether astronauts carry weapons when they go to heaven?
The answer is, not necessarily.
Because the astronauts of the United States and the former Soviet Union handled the problems differently. American astronauts strictly said that they did not carry weapons. Soviet astronauts and later Russian astronauts did have weapons. So what weapons are there? Gun, pistol.
Of course, these weapons are not used to participate in this Star Wars, nor are they used to deal with alien creatures that may cause astronauts to encounter danger, but to save and survive. The pistols of Soviet astronauts and Russian astronauts are mainly stored in their emergency supplies bags. Emergency reserve packages are available for astronauts from the United States and the Soviet Union. These items are mainly used for self-rescue and survival when astronauts encounter emergencies. So why did the Soviet Union and Russian astronauts have guns in their spare bags, but the United States does not?
This is mainly due to the different settings for manned space return to Earth between the United States and the Soviet Union. We know that when American astronauts return to Earth and load into the atmosphere, they often choose to land at sea. For example, Apollo, the entire mission is to land on water and fall into the sea. Therefore, the firearms are not very useful in the spare parts of the American astronauts, because at sea, who do you use firearms to deal with? For them, the most important thing in the product bag is the inflatable life valve and seawater desalination agent, especially fishing gear, which is fishing things, fish hooks and fishing lines, and items used to drive out sharks. These are the main things that are needed for emergency landings on water, including emergency food and emergency fresh water.
. Soviet astronauts chose to reenter on land, which is very similar to the way we China takes. It is often recycled in a vast area, landing grounds on land. In this way, the astronauts may be in a relatively remote landing ground after landing. If the search and rescue is timely, the astronauts will soon meet with the search and rescue team.
But there are also times when they are not satisfied, the most typical one is in the Soviet era. Due to the lack of measurement and control technology, some dangerous situations have occurred. The most prominent one was the "Ascendance No. 2" mission of Leonov in 1965. During that mission, two astronauts Leonov and Bereyaev performed the first outside cabin walk in human history. After that mission ended, the two of them encountered some accidents when they returned to Earth after welcoming the highlight of their lives. Due to technical problems of side control, their spacecraft has a deviation of nearly 400 kilometers from the landing point. Such a long distance makes this search and rescue force unable to find them as soon as possible. At this time, the two were already close to the wilderness of Siberia in the Ural area. At this time, they were actually facing many variables.
At that time, Leonov was most worried about encountering large beasts, because the food was still easy to say, because there were some emergency foods in the preparations. However, once you encounter a large beast, the two people are very worried, because in such a wasteland, especially in the cold season, you are likely to encounter this hungry bear, wolf, or even more ferocious animals, such as tigers.
If you encounter such an animal, is there anything in the preparations of two people that can compete with the animals? There is indeed. In fact, Soviet astronauts used to carry firearms, what kind of firearms are they? A "Marklov" 9mm automatic pistol. However, with such an automatic pistol , if it is really necessary to fight a hungry bear, according to the current stopping theory of military guns, it is definitely not enough to stop a bear at close range, either shoot it to death, or seriously injure it.There is no way to do it. Although this magazine can hold 8 bullets, if you want to knock down a bear, the 9mm Marklof is obviously unsure. Because Leonov and Bereyaev are both military, they are very clear about the power of military pistols.
After experiencing that adventure, the two of them stayed in a cold place for a whole night, and the search and rescue team managed to find them the next day dawn. It was snowy and ice at that time, so the two of them had a false alarm, so they simply did not encounter such a situation.
Afterwards, Leonov put forward such a demand to the technical department of Soviet aerospace , that is, if we fall to the wasteland due to measurement and control issues, and there is a possibility of wild beasts appearing on this wasteland, then astronauts must have technical equipment that can compete with wild beasts.
The Soviet technical department took these matters seriously, so he entrusted this gun technical organization to research and develop, and finally completed such a weapon design at the Tula Arsenal. This weapon was later called TP82 pistol . Strictly speaking, it should be called TP82 pistol space pistol, or a special gun for astronauts.
