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| Eriol Diglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 6869 days ago 118 posts - 130 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Portuguese | Message 1 of 1 07 December 2006 at 5:17pm | IP Logged |
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As some of you might already know the space shuttle Discovery will be launched into space later tonight with the first ever swedish astronaut Christer Fuglesang on board. If everything oges according to plan, liftoff will be at around 03.30 CET, but the weather seems a bit unreliable at the moment so it might be postponed a few days or weeks.
Anyway, Fuglesang speaks about five languages, at least three of them at a very high level, and according to him the hardest task he has ever set out on was learning Russian. For those of us that are still struggling with that beast of a language it's quite comforting to hear that kind of comment from someone who has a PhD in Particle Physics and has been trained both as a cosmonaut and as an astronaut. Fuglesang has been waiting for this space flight for 14 years and he has almost a status of anti-hero in Sweden. He is known as the astronaut who never goes to space. Languages: Swedish, native language English, has been working with NASA for the last eight years or so. Russian, had to learn this really well while completing cosmonaut training. French, he worked at CERN outside Geneva for a couple of years. German, he is employed by ESA which is situated in Germany, but I think he learnt the language earlier, while in Switzerland or in school. TEST EDIT Edited by newyorkeric on 12 August 2009 at 3:22pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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