What was the 4th language spoken in space?
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What was the 4th language spoken in space?
Pashto language
During this mission, Abdul Ahad Momand was the first cosmonaut to speak the Pashto language after he made a telephone call to Afghanistan, making it the fourth language to be officially spoken in space.
What languages have been spoken in space?
The Russian language is also one of two official languages aboard the International Space Station – NASA astronauts who serve alongside Russian cosmonauts usually take Russian language courses. This practice goes back to the Apollo-Soyuz mission, which first flew in 1975.
What was the first language spoken in outer space?
The first signal sent from a man-made space vessel was not in any language: Sputnik I sent beeps – not Russian words. The first human language spoken away from Planet Earth was Russian: when Yuri Gagarin circled the Earth he spoke his native tongue to mission control in Baikonur.
Which is the third largest spoken language?
Ethnologue (2019, 22nd edition)
| Rank | Language | Speakers (millions) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mandarin Chinese | 918 |
| 2 | Spanish | 480 |
| 3 | English | 379 |
| 4 | Hindi (sanskritised Hindustani) | 341 |
Do cosmonauts speak English?
The cosmonauts have some proficiency in English (but often not mastery) and the astronauts have some proficiency in Russian (but often not mastery), but their cross-training in each others’ language means that they manage to speak to each other in Runglish (a combination of English and Russian).
What language do they speak on the ISS?
On board the space station all the procedures are in English, as English is the general language of the station.
What language do they speak in the ISS?
What language do you have to speak on the space station?
Russian
Language On The ISS Astronauts need to speak Russian at an intermediate-high level for the purposes of getting there and back, because all the procedures and labels are written in Russian on the Soyuz.
Why is Russian spoken in space?
Their spacecraft mission is commanded by a Russian citizen and a large chunk of their destination — the International Space Station — has modules and operations in Russian, too. This means that all astronauts going to the ISS, no matter how many languages they speak, also need to learn Russian.