alt Hacker NewsWhy did some Apollo missions carry a grenade launcher?
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"The mortar package is activated by the "arm grenades" and "fire grenades" commands from Earth. The arm grenades command is applied to and gated through the command gating to the grenade arming circuitwhich charges the regulaz and sequential firing capacitors of the four grenades by applying a Z4-volt arming signal. A grenade arm pulse is also applied to the data handling function indicating receipt of the command."
Page 2-170 (179 of the PDF) of reference [1].
[0] https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19710014816 [1] https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19710014816/downloads/19...
The soviets did regularly carry a gun. For survival purposes, as they were landing in Siberia which has wolves and pretty big bears.
The question is pretty unnecessary given that it references the "ALSEP Flight System Familiarization Manual" [1] which also goes into detail about the purpose of the grenade launcher.
nasa employee: oh hey u guys are back early
astronaut: moon's haunted
nasa employee: what?
astronaut: *loading a pistol and getting back on the rocket-ship* moon's haunted.
Doom 3 motto: "The UAC is making safer worlds through superior firepower."
Like it was just a default for the game engine they were using.
Now I'm wondering how far a regular military grenade launcher could lauch grenades on the moon
> They were part of an active seismic imaging experiment
That is what we call plausible deniability.
(Everyone complaining about this topic inviting jokes, and I’m the first to have posted one. Drama sells more than silly jokes these days.)
Because the howitzer wouldn't fit?
To gun down the aliens. The answer is so obvious.
First thought: were these fragmentation grenades? Second though: nope: not useful for seismic research. Third though: on the moon, thrown fragmentation grenades wouldn't be safe for the thrower.
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Hmm
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And then they wonder why the whole group is dying
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