Assuming you are floating freely in space the gun will work just as it does on Earth. However, the bullet will continue moving for many thousands of years, eventually coming to a stop due to the friction from the diffuse material found in ’empty’ space (or when it encounters another object).

Do astronauts carry gun

Specifically, there are usually one or two handguns on board the International Space Station, NBC News Space Analyst Jim Oberg reports . The guns belong to the Russians, but “anybody has access to them,” Oberg said. The guns are described as all-in-one weapons. They can fire rifle or shotgun ammo and simple flares.

Are bullets faster in space

If you fire a gun in atmosphere, there is air resistance, an overall net loss of bullet velocity. A bullet in space will initially be a tad slower, but it will not lose velocity

Fires can’t burn in the oxygen-free vacuum of space, but guns can shoot. Modern ammunition contains its own oxidizer, a chemical that will trigger the explosion of gunpowder, and thus the firing of a bullet, wherever you are in the universe. No atmospheric oxygen required.

Once shot, the bullet will keep going, quite literally, forever. “The bullet will never stop, because the universe is expanding faster than the bullet can catch up with any serious amount of mass” to slow it down, said Matija Cuk, an astronomer with joint appointments at Harvard University and the SETI Institute

How far will bullet go in space

If you fired a gun in space, the bullet would travel until it ran out of momentum. Since there is no air resistance or gravity to slow it down, the bullet could theoretically keep going forever

How fast can bullet travel in space

Well, it would simply drift into the blackness, forever alone, while the galaxies around it sped further away. Those galaxies are travelling at around 200km/s (124 miles/sec) as the Universe expands, whereas a travelling bullet can reach speeds of only 1km/s (0.62 mile/sec).

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