[FPSPACE] Energiya / MirCorp get realistic

[Vojko Kogej]

According to Tuesday Itar-Tass Sharipov and Vinogradov will fly with Tito.
Are they also English-speaking? I think Salizhan speak English, but for
Vinogradov I don t know.
Vojko

 > They also gave up
> >teaching Tito Russian and will instead fly two
> English-speaking
> >cosmonauts on his flight (Musabayev and Baturin, IIRC).
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>  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".
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>    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
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> *  how to use the toilet - hands on participatory learning,
> repeated in the afternoon;
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> * how to use a fire extinguisher;
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> * how to put on an oxygen mask;
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> * how to scramble into a docked Soyuz TM;
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> * sign a written contract to obey the captain, & touch
> nothing without asking first.
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>   Can the above be learnt within one 8 hour day? That might
> encourage a few more millionaire customers.
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