Posted by Alto.Speckhardt on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/New-Person-tp1489453p1489570.html

Servus!

L> made me think about what someone said to mu hubby the other day: that
L> in Russia most likely every army or navy guy going on a dangerous
L> mission would have one of those pills that cause one to die instantly.
L> Cyanide, I guess?
Are you really sure of this? Even at the time of NASA's Apollo missions the
rumours were going around that the astronauts had those misterious pills
with them e.g. in case their lunar lander wouldn't launch again. Here the
rumours proved to be totally off, there were no such pills (as explicitly
stated by Jim Lovell in his book "Lost Moon".)

In any case, I'd think there would be easier ways to go, exspecially for
astronauts: All they had to do was turn one screw and release the atmosphere
out of their capsule or suit, and this would be done with. They wouldn't
need any such pills.

RU! (48o18'13''N/10o10'32''E)