I need all you space fans out there to accept that the reason we went to the Moon in 1969 and we aren't going back now is that the Apollo rockets were a side effect of building nuclear-tipped ICBMs and they were intended as a live demonstration of how easily we could nuke Moscowhttps://twitter.com/IBJIYONGI/status/1306748423404687360 …
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The leader of a cosmonaut mission did, in fact, carry a sidearm just as matter of course, in case something happened to them after they landed
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That was more to do with wildlife though, because their capsules landed in the Siberian wilderness rather than the ocean
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The idea that “basic science” has ever been driven by curiosity and not other things is Cold War propaganda