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Becoming an astronaut takes years of training. Candidates learn to fly jets, rehearse spacewalks in giant swimming pools, operate robotic arms and practise survival skills in case a capsule comes down far from home. But one part of the job surprises almost everyone: the homework.
Almost as soon as they are recruited, astronauts from the United States, Canada and Europe begin language lessons with a private tutor, sometimes several times a week. At NASA, passing a spoken test in this language is part of basic training, and an astronaut who cannot pass it does not fly. Before a mission many trainees spend weeks living with a host family abroad, and some of the training and manuals they rely on are written entirely in this language.
The reason is safety. When the Space Shuttle retired in July 2011, the only way to reach the International Space Station for nearly a decade was aboard a foreign spacecraft whose crews talked with their mission control in this language alone. Canadian astronaut David Saint Jacques put it plainly: if an emergency such as a fire broke out while the station was talking to that control centre, “you need to be fluent to be really useful in a situation like that.”
Besides English, which language do astronauts heading to the International Space Station have to learn?
Not for food. For challenge. The kind, school used to give you. The kind your job almost never does. Most adults stop learning anything new the day they stop being graded on it. They coast on old knowledge and wonder why their thinking feels slow.
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