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Russians blast off without space pistol
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post Oct 12 2007, 04:27 PM
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Russia is sending a cosmonaut into space without a fearsome triple-barrelled "space pistol" for the first time in 20 years, due to a shortage of ammunition.
Created in 1982 and in service since 1986, the TP-82 pistol was not primarily designed to fend off hostile extra-terrestrials.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml...tol109.xml&


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post Oct 12 2007, 04:34 PM
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...the TP-82 pistol was not primarily designed to fend off hostile extra-terrestrials.

Instead it is meant to protect the shuttle's crew if they land in a hostile environment back on earth.


Yeah, right - the pistol was really to protect the cosmonauts from each other!


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