Interesting Little Tidbit

[Schone23666]

Originally Posted by Rainbow Six

I remember asking a similar question a while ago following a pub conversation where my mates and I speculated about how much different the original Planet of the Apes film would have been if Charlton Heston and his crew had been armed with M16's. (I tried to search for the thread in question but I can't pull up anything using the search function and I can only view my previous 500 posts and I think it was before that).

If I remember correctly the original pub conversation ended up getting a bit silly when someone (it might have been me) speculated on what would have happened if the astronauts had started lobbing 60mm HE mortar rounds into the middle of Ape City...

I think the consensus of opinion at the time was that no, US space missions were not armed, although I don;t think there was 100% proof one way or the other...(although there was always Moonraker)

Well, keep in mind Vandenberg AFB in California, where they used to do a lot of orbital launches before they moved more of the activity to Cape Canaveral in Florida , is not too far away from a multitude of U.S. Marine bases. So it's not COMPLETELY outside the realm of possibility to be sending a couple platoons of Marines into space...

However as Moonraker was concerned, I was more interested in viewing the ladies in those little white miniskirts.

[stormlion1]

I know in the early Space Program the Mercury Astronauts had survival knives in there capsules. I remember reading Gus Grissom was trying to get his loose as a souvenir when his capsule door blew open. And no, the knife was no where near the hatch release.