The One and Only Time a Gun Has Been Fired in Space

In 1975, the Soviet Union did something that had never been done in space before. They fired a gun from a space station, the one and only time such a thing has happened. It was an event that was only uncovered after the fall of the USSR in the early 1990s.

The gun the Soviets fired in space wasn’t a handgun, but was, in fact, a cannon that was based on the design for a cannon…