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Why is Russian important for astronauts?

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Aboard the International Space Station, the operating language is English, so all astronauts have to be fluent or at least proficient in that tongue to perform their procedures. However, one means of travel to and from the ISS is Russia’s Soyuz spacecraft, which is operated solely in Russian, so astronauts have to be proficient in that language too.