SunTzuNephew
Explorer
That's really cool. But, why in the world did they carry it in space????
As stated, it was a survival tool after returning to earth. For a very long time the Soviets didn't allow aircrew to have any weapons in their survival kits: A pilot crashed in the tundra, survived for several days and kept a diary stating how he was starving to death with small animals around. And no way to catch/kill them.
It's interesting that they can't come up with more ammo for this. How hard would it be to knock out a few thousand rounds?