The astronauts and Russian cosmonauts communicate with each other in the language of the ISS “ruslish” – TASS

NEW YORK, June 1,. / Corr. Natalia Slavin TASS /. American astronauts working on the International Space Station, often communicate with their Russian counterparts in a mixture of English and Russian language, which is called “ruslish”. This was told the astronaut Timothy Kopra during the first-ever direct link Facebook users with the international part of the ISS team. Communication led the founder of the social network Mark Zuckerberg

He asked the astronauts -. Timothy Kopra, Jeffrey Williams and Briton Timothy Peake – how is their communication with foreign colleagues at the ISS. They told us that if we are talking about the Europeans, Canadians and Japanese, the most commonly used English. Now, however, the three Russian cosmonauts working on the Russian Segment – Yuri Malenchenko, Alex Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka

“We have three more or less speak in Russian, but our Russian friends are well aware of the English language, -. Said Kopra . – But when we gather together, we speak both English and Russian at the same time, it turns out that language “ruslish” (a word derived from a combination of Russian and English) – a combination of the two languages. ” “But the most important thing is that we are able to talk without any problems, because communication is an integral part of our work, strict implementation of all planned tasks,” -. He emphasized

Mark Zuckerberg asked a few questions to astronauts, many of which received on-line from Facebook users – what experiments were conducted aboard the ISS crew on what to eat and what kind of career they have passed through, to become astronauts. At the request of Zuckerberg, the team even made a somersault 360 degrees around itself, showing “zero gravity” aboard the station.

Speaking of the founder of the social network and its users with the astronauts of the ISS lasted about a quarter of an hour.

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