ASKING (AND ANSWERING) THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Did the Soviet Union really fire a cannon from a space station? “At the time, Soviet officials were concerned that the United States was already developing spacecraft that could approach, investigate, and either capture or disable Moscow’s sensitive satellites. The natural response to such concerns was to develop defense systems capable of neutralizing such threats — and the result became legendary in some circles as one of the strangest weapons of the Space Race. But was this Soviet ‘space cannon’ ever successfully fired in orbit?”