Could it be fear of the unknown or simply to put up a formidable arsenal up there just in case of anything happening don here? One can call it 'piling' or assembling of weapons.
We haven’t been notified of hostile aliens hovering in the upper
atmosphere, yet after looking at a few of the weapons astronauts have
packed, you really start to wonder what they’re so worried about.
Of course, the alternative is that someone slips through the rigorous psychological testing of NASA and terror ensues on ISS.
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The first orbital survival knife (1960-0963)(National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution) |