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Why did some Apollo missions carry a grenade launcher?
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fjd
· 2026-11-15 Sun 16:43 UTC ·
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Went down a rabbit hole to see if the Apollo "thumpers" were named so because of Dune. Apparently there were a few terrestrial thumpers in use by oil and gas surveyors prior to the book and missions... whomp whomp.