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icefox on Oct 12, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: What's the most mind-blowing fact you heard/read i...

Most recently I found out that the Russian Salyut 3 space station (whos missions were to take 3" resolution pictures of the US) had a cannon mounted on the bottom of it. Not only was there a machine gun in space, but it was fired too.

philwelch on Oct 12, 2010 [–]

How did the space station keep its position?

ebrenes on Oct 14, 2010 | [–]

This article I found while pondering the same question states that it was de-orbited a day after the test firing (http://maikelnai.elcomerciodigital.com/2009/12/30/salyut-3-d...), granted it doesn't provide sources for that specific claim.

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