Frankly, American history classes in public school...  ...erence in the American and Soviet space programs. Cosmonauts carried a weapon into space that was basically a...  ...n.The TP-82 pistol was developed specifically for cosmonauts and packed enough punch to take out a half-ton gr...  ...sincerest hopes that...

An Olympic torch for the Sochi games was launched...  ...that it be carried on a spacewalk by current ISS cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy on November 9.Th...

Life as a cosmonaut in the early days of the Sovie...  ...the spring mating season. Between themselves the cosmonauts had one pistol but ample ammunition.Rescue crews...  ...found them relatively quickly, but getting to the cosmonauts and getting them out was a time-consuming task, m...

Soviet cosmonauts usually returned to Earth by landing on the groun...  ...armed to ensure their safety. Current Russian cosmonauts return the same way. To prepare themselves for th...

Unlike their American counterparts, Soviet cosmonauts went into space armed. Specifically, they carrie...  ...into the stock -- just in case.... Why did the cosmonauts carry this gun? It wasn't to fight off aliens, b...