Russia to give cosmonauts guns to fend off wild animals on landing
(World News Russia)

Russia is testing a gun that returning cosmonauts could use to fend off wild animals when landing in remote areas, the head of the Russian space agency said on Wednesday.Cosmonauts have been unarmed for more than a decade but Roscosmos agency head Dmitry Rogozin said it was time to bring back weapons as manned launches move to the Russian Far East.Explosion at Russian lab holding smallpox and Ebola samples“It’s possible that landings will also be in this area, which is not populated, with… ......