[FPSPACE] Energiya / MirCorp get realistic

[KEITH GOTTSCHALK]

> They also gave up 
>teaching Tito Russian and will instead fly two
English-speaking 
>cosmonauts on his flight (Musabayev and Baturin, IIRC).

 At last the nonsense of insisting space tourists must spend
a year learning Russian has ended. Only eighty years after
KLM started to fly passengers without insisting they learn
Dutch  :)  :)  :)
It is cheaper to stick bilingual labels where needed, saying
"Open", "Shut", "On" and "Off". There are even language-free
icons for that sort of thing, eg, the convention of icons
"O" and "1".

   Now Energiya / MirCorp's next learning curve (necessity
is the mother of invention) is to ditch the childish expense
of pretending space passengers need to spend a year learning
to be an astronaut.
All passengers need learn & practice is

*  how to use the toilet - hands on participatory learning,
repeated in the afternoon;

* how to use a fire extinguisher;

* how to put on an oxygen mask;

* how to scramble into a docked Soyuz TM;

* sign a written contract to obey the captain, & touch
nothing without asking first.

  Can the above be learnt within one 8 hour day? That might
encourage a few more millionaire customers.