Why did Yang Liwei go into space with a gun? What is the bitter lesson of the Soviet Union that the whole world has taken as a warning?

Since the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), we have put many plans on the agenda. With the launch of Dongfanghong satellite, China's space industry set sail, and China began a new journey different from the past. June 5438+1October 65438+May 2003 is a day that China astronauts should remember. On this day, our manned spaceship Shenzhou 5 flew into space. This is the first time that China has sent a manned spacecraft into the vast space. After the Soviet Union and the United States, another country in the world can launch manned spacecraft. How can this not be exciting?

Shenzhou 5 touched the hearts of all the people in China. When the manned spacecraft was launched, Yang Liwei also came into the sight of thousands of people in China. When Yang Liwei stepped off the spaceship, the whole country cheered and we finally took a brand-new step. But what everyone doesn't know is that when Yang Liwei returned to China, he still had a gun on him. Why?

In fact, many people will think that this gun is used to attack aliens at first sight. After all, the life of the universe is longer than that of the earth. In the vast universe, there may really be higher intelligent creatures like us. Aliens may exist, but this gun is not used against aliens. In fact, the tradition of carrying guns into space originated from the Soviet Union, and its function is mainly used to defend life on earth.

Before the disintegration of the former Soviet Union, the Soviet space industry was also excellent, and their achievements in this field once surpassed those of the United States. In the process of launching the manned spacecraft in the Soviet Union, the astronauts encountered a positioning system failure when they returned. The spacecraft did not dock at the Soviet space station as expected, but landed on the Siberian plain. This is a virgin forest in the northern part of the Soviet Union. Occasionally, there will be wild animals, and a little carelessness may kill you.

After the accident, the Soviet authorities stipulated that all astronauts in space should wear pistols, just to prevent this from happening again. If astronauts encounter large ferocious creatures after landing, they can also defend themselves with pistols.

With the development of science and technology, more advanced space pistols have appeared. This kind of pistol appears in Russia and has many uses. When astronauts land in sparsely populated areas, they can use this pistol to fire flares and make fires. Of course, space pistol, as a kind of pistol, also has certain lethality, which can ensure that astronauts will not be captured by wild animals.

In fact, space exploration has always been a very dangerous action. Whether a spaceship takes off or lands on another planet or returns to Earth, all kinds of accidents may occur in this complicated process. Astronauts risk their lives every time they perform a mission, and I don't know if they can return to earth alive this time.

Although the current satellite positioning system is very powerful and the space technology of various countries is becoming more and more mature, space is always an unknown field for human beings. As long as you don't understand the mystery one day, you can't take it lightly.