Was a weapon carried aboard the Apollo 11 mission in case they met anything hostile?

I guess this can be asked of every manned space mission. But I've wondered for years if any weapons were carried aboard Apollo 11.





After all; They were going where no humans have ever gone before. All we knew about the moon then was what we could see through a telescope a quarter million miles away on Earth.





It seems inconceivable that people would go that far into unknown regions and not carry some means of self defense.Was a weapon carried aboard the Apollo 11 mission in case they met anything hostile?
Yes it was called Buzz Aldrin he has a good right hook.Was a weapon carried aboard the Apollo 11 mission in case they met anything hostile?
Sorry, but the only weapons you will find in any spacecraft in history is the survival knife and on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft, a special survival rifle, which has three different barrels, for shooting flares and defending the spacecraft against hostile creatures... from Earth. When you land accidentally in the Ural mountains, you will be happy if you can at least scare the bears away.





But militarily, what do you think: how much ammo and weapons can a spacecraft carry? If you land where hostile creatures life and where the next human to reinforce you is thousands of miles away, even the Soyuz survival rifle will serve a better purpose if you give it away as tribute for peace.





It is a typical thought inside the USA, that a single rifle is good for defending the house against robbers, but the people who use to think that way, also think the robbers will draw numbers before breaking into the house, will not defend their own criminal life with even better weapons and will give you a 30 minutes break to drive to the store and buy new ammo.





Only works good, if you have somebody else wearing a red shirt.
No, they didn't, though there was some concern about them bringing back harmful bacteria, unlikely as it seemed. Up until Apollo 14 astronauts were quarantined when they returned to Earth in case they had picked up some pathogen in space or on the Moon.





And to correct some misinformation above, the oxygen in gunpowder is bound up in the powder. So not only would a gun work in a vacuum, it would be even deadlier because there would be no air to slow the bullet.





Which brings up another point, an accidental gunshot in a space capsule could cripple or destroy the mission. Another excellent reason why NASA wouldn't particularly want armed astronauts.
Apollo 11 was in 1969.





Back then very few people seriously believed there was any life outside earth because there was no alien/ufo industry merchandising it's way into people's brains. The circus of greys/reptilians/nordics/etc/etc had yet to be invented, and there was no history (sic) channel brainwashing people with cock and bull stories about aliens.





Hence there were no weapons aboard any of the Apollo flights.
Apollos 8 and 10 went into lunar orbit before Apollo 11 and those astronauts got a very good view of the Moon. There were also plenty of photos from unmanned probes. The Russians photographed the far side of the Moon in 1959. If there had been hostile aliens on the Moon, they would have known. I doubt anyone at NASA was concerned about Armstrong and Aldrin encountering aliens on the Moon.
You with your typical mindset cannot think of anything sophisticated. Even if you need to kill something (the very laughable idea) does it appear like a mammalian like man? Or there no sophisticated methods you can think of?


The real danger happens to be from organisms like Viruses, like the present day H151 flu Virus that is sweeping the world now. Do you need 'a weapon' against such athing or anti-viral serum (don't say that, 'that' is also a weapon).
Ciaron D: LMAO!


Asker: No, there was no other weapon aboard. Soviet capsules, OTOH, were equipped with shotguns, I believe, because there may have been bears where they landed. All of ours splashed down, so no bears. And nobody was the least bit worried about hostile alien beings, since those are so unlikely to exist. No weapon was needed.
A gun only works in the presence of air. The combustion that propels a bullet depends on explosion taking place in the firing chamber of the gun. This combustion could only work inside the pressurized oxygen filled lunar module and not out in the near total vacuum of the lunar surface. A gun would be useless in that situation.
no.





your history is faulty, in any case. teh moon had been extensively mapped from orbit, and several probes had soft-landed. the apollo 12 astronuts landed right by one of them (surveyor 3) so they could bring parts of it home with them.
im very positive they developed the first Tazer for this mission and brought it with them
No, they had no weapons on the space craft. They definitely did not expect to find life on the Moon.
45 caliber
no


its might be something wrong with the rocket
%26gt;Was a weapon carried aboard the Apollo 11 mission in case they met anything hostile?





No. It was already fairly well established that no native life forms or alien artifacts of any kind existed on the Moon. Besides, a gun would have constitutes a considerable amount of extra weight, and when you're flying into space, you want to carry as little extra weight as you can. Of course, they took a golf club once, and they took some flags, so they COULD have taken a gun if they had really wanted to (and yes, it would have worked in space, since black powder has its own oxidizer), but they didn't.





%26gt;All we knew about the moon then was what we could see through a telescope a quarter million miles away on Earth.





That's not actually true. Both robotic and manned spacecraft had already been sent orbiting around the Moon, and had done extensive photography work on its surface. Robotic landers had also been landed on the Moon's surface as early as 1966, and had sent back pictures of the surface, some of which were (I think) used in the film 2001 A Space Odyssey, which was released in 1968, a year before Apollo 11. So NASA already knew a great deal about the conditions their astronauts would be dealing with there.