[FPSPACE] Is this a record for simultaneous earthlings in space?

[James Oberg]

My peeve, too:

http://www.jamesoberg.com/russian/ooze.html

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Jones" <clj at panix.com>
To: <fpspace at friends-partners.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 12:47 PM
>
> OK, time to whine about a pet peeve.  I watched the Soyuz launch earlier
> that brought the 11th-13th humans into space, and the NASA commentator
> consistently pronounced the word SOY-ooze (first syllable like the sauce
> or bean) rather than the correct sah-YOOZE.  The 4 Cyrillic letters in the
> word (ess oh you zeh is approximately how they are pronounced) are
> transliterated as s-o-yu-z.  Since it's been over 30 years since an
> American first flew a mission with a Soyuz, it would be nice if we'd get
> the pronunciation right.
>