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Astronauts Translating Russian Under Pressure | BBC Earth Science

The candidates must respond to Russian commands correctly, to demonstrate their capability to operate after the physical and mental overload of a simulated launch.

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"Панел А, номэр пьять"
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To survive in space, you need to learn Russian. 😂
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North Americans: "she didn't learn the alphabet". Brits: "ehhh, um, she's a bit patchy"
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Ah yes, the ancient alien lingo, the cyrillic alphabet. Eldritch stuff.
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People born in Eastern Europe before 1990: 😅🤣😂
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I thought my russian was bad. Now I feel like I can be an astronaut
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You can find our full compilation of Astronauts: Toughest Job in the Universe here: https://youtu.be/YFECn46FKLc
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They reading like Beavis and Butt-head.🤣
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1:16 сук...сукгнал As a Russian I feel you🥲
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@Wow_oh_wow From YouTube ↗ 23 Jun 2026 220
- Минута
- Мезен.. Ита?! Эн Мэн. Миньета? Миньета! 😊
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@Dkoooz From YouTube ↗ 23 Jun 2026 120
Those guys did not study hard, it's trivial without even actual knowledge of Russian, you just need to be able to read out the alphabet
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@cartelion From YouTube ↗ 23 Jun 2026 369
Really Bad Russian Skills. Its like they are not even trying to learn Russian.
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@mark35720 From YouTube ↗ 23 Jun 2026 87
Broo all they need to know here is a couple of Cyrillic script letters and u just pass
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@Gepitonium From YouTube ↗ 23 Jun 2026 682
They should thank God that the inscriptions are not in Chinese 😆
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Common, it is not russian test. It is just alphabet test. 😂😂😂
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@Gn0ume From YouTube ↗ 23 Jun 2026 2100
as a russian, I understood 100%. can I go to the space now?
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@calabrais From YouTube ↗ 23 Jun 2026 798
Don't let the Duolingo bird get the controls of that G force machine
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@alexs818 From YouTube ↗ 23 Jun 2026 1800
They chose all the words that are identical to English, it's basically just an alphabet test 😂
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@kozodoi_sc From YouTube ↗ 23 Jun 2026 2700
- telescop
- in english please
- telescope
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@Yurinsm From YouTube ↗ 21 Jun 2026 711
Geez, this test might be the easiest they would have