] Eleven years before that, two cosmonauts overshot their ] touchdown site by 2,000 miles and found themselves deep ] in a forest with hungry wolves. That's when Russian space ] officials decided to pack a sawed-off shotgun aboard ] every spacecraft. So we've all heard about the 300 mile mistake now. But I couldn't pass up this "low-tech" bit. It should be titled "When technology just isn't good enough, there's always a shotgun". Returned space crew lucky, others faced wolves |